Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Broadway prices have risen so high that it's lavish praise to say a show is worth the price of the ticket. Most of the present crop are not; several are. And there is one so good that even bringing a date along is not extravagant.
A good deal has been made of the fact that Shelagh Delaney was only nineteen when she wrote A Taste of Honey; but this play is so fundamentally the expression of a young person that the departing audience does not gawk, "Gosh, and she's only nineteen," but soberly acknowledges...
There is a difference between bitterness and cynicism. Cynicism restricts itself to the rejection of certain values; its laughter is limited by the negative function of this rejection. The art of Shelagh Delaney, however, is bitter in that it confronts the present grimness of life while bearing the promise of...
The story concerns a whiskey-soaked, carousing mother and the young daughter, Jo, whom she has been dragging around from flophouse to flophouse. The mother decides to have another fling at marriage and leaves the girl (whom in a more profound sense she had deserted long ago). Left alone, Jo...
Miss Delaney's play is a philosophical accomplishment, for she wrings a bit of optimism out of sooty reality; but it is even more significant as theater. Aided by brilliant performances from Angela Lansbury as the mother, and Joan Plowright as Jo, the author manages to present the person she...