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[[image:Girlfriend_in_a_Coma.png|thumb|right|Delaney was featured twice on [[The Smiths|Smiths]] record sleeves, including this one for their 1987 single, "Girlfriend in a Coma."]]
'''Shelagh Delaney''' (born [[November 25]], [[1939]]), is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[playwright]] of [[Ireland|Irish]] descent,  best known for her debut work, ''A Taste Of Honey''.

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At age seventeen, Delaney began ''[[A Taste of Honey]]'' as a [[novel]] but soon realised that it would work better as a [[play]]. It focuses on a teen aged [[working-class]] girl who refuses to conform to her dreary surroundings. The play portrays the lives of typical workers in the north of England in an inventive way.

''A Taste of Honey'' was accepted by [[Joan Littlewood]], [[theatre director|artistic director]]
 of the [[Theatre Workshop]], who strongly believed that plays should be about ordinary people. It opened at the [[Theatre Royal Stratford East]] in [[London]] on [[May 27]], [[1958]], and on [[February 10]], [[1959]], transferred [[Wyndham's Theatre]] in the [[West End theatre|West End]], where it enjoyed a long run and won several awards.  On [[October 4]], [[1960]], the play opened at [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]'s [[Lyceum Theatre]] with a cast including [[Joan Plowright]], [[Angela Lansbury]], (contracted; show full)
[[Category:1939 births|Delaney, Shelagh]]
[[Category:British dramatists and playwrights|Delaney, Shelagh]]
[[Category:Living people|Delaney, Shelagh]]
[[Category:People of Irish descent in Great Britain|Delaney, Shelagh]]
[[Category:People from Salford|Delaney, Shelagh]]

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