With her very first play, Shelagh Delaney wrote herself into the history of British theatre.
A sensational success at Joan Littlewood's Stratford East in 1958, it moved into the West End, then Broadway. And the much-loved film version is a high point of British cinema. Not bad for an 18 year-old usherette from Salford!
Jo is a young girl with some grown-up problems. It’s hard enough living hand-tomouth with her gadabout mother in a succession of dingy bedsits. And that’s before there was a new fancy man on the scene. Now she’s discovered that her boyfriend is about to sail off round the world - and there’s something she needs to tell him.
But, in this enchanting play, directed by Gwenda Hughes, Jo’s never giving up on her dreams. With love, friendship and faith in the future, she’s determined to show that, no matter what, life can still be sweet.
“A remarkable page of theatre history”
Daily Telegraph
“Delaney writes like a dream”
The Observer
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The Wicked Lady
