Talk:A Taste of Honey

Play or film?
Is this refering to the play or the film? It seems they are different or this is wrong... RuSTy I believe the song section for this article should either be expanded and placed onto it's own article page, or removed from this article, as the article is about the play. If expanded, it needs data on it's history, including it's inspiration, origins, possible recordings, release date (s), track lists, lyric sample, composition & structure, public response, awards, infoboxes, etc. robertjohnsonrj 21:34, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Is this NPOV?
a crude, sexually indiscriminate 'semi whore'

The Boy / boyfriend
In the plot summary section it is noted that Jo's boyfriend is named Jimmy. I believe (having just studied the play, however I may well be mistaken) that the boyfriend is never actually refered to by name and we never actually find this out. Which in itself emphasises the racial prejudice against his character and the taboo nature of Jo's relationship with him. Therefore I suggest it is re-written with explanation to his anonymous representation. Unless someone cares to correct me Joejanman (talk) 00:21, 10 February 2009 (UTC)


 * in scene 2 act 2, following a conversation about how the doll Geoff bought was the wrong colour, they talk about the boy and Geoff asks his name to which Jo replies No, it was Jimmie! but yeah his name isn't mentioned anywhere else in the play apart from in this instance. AverageFloppa (talk) 23:31, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

The motion picture
The motion picture of the play was released in 1962 and won four BAFTA awards (British equivalent of the Oscar) plus some additional nominations. It was voted One of the Year's Ten Best Films by the 1962 National Board of Review and the New York Times Film Critics. Winner of a Special Prize for Best Acting Ensemble for Melvin and Tushingham at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival It starred Rita Tushingham as Jo. The song "A Taste of Honey" was recorded as an instrumental by Herb Alpert. The Beatles had a recording of the song several years later.

Producer & Director: Tony Richardson Actor Role Rita Tushingham Jo Dora Bryan  Helen Robert Stephens Peter Murray Melvin Geoffrey Paul Danquah Jimmy David Boliver Bert Moira Kaye Doris  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jessied44 (talk • contribs) 00:58, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

i don't think this is a very good play because it ends with a cliffhanger and we don't now if jimmy ever comes back. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.47.84.156 (talk) 15:14, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

The preceding paragraph does not have a place in Wikipedia since it is a personal comment. I request that whoever is responsible (i.e. at Wikipedia or anyone who knows how to) remove it. I could just as well claim that for me the Rita Tushingham version of the movie respresents the best movie ever made. I mean that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Steiner71 (talk • contribs) 18:15, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

TV production.
I remember seeing a a version of the play produced for Schools TV in the seventies. I remember they used Satie's Gymnopédies as the opening and closing music - first time I'd heard it and very haunting. Does anyone have any further information, cast details etc.? Twizzlemas (talk) 12:21, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Lord Chamberlain and Stage Censorship
Based on the absences of the text-strings "Chamberlain" and "censor" in this article, I would say (without giving the article a word-by-word readings) that it glaringly omits any discussion of the intersection between this play, the play by Terence Rattigan "Variation on a Theme", and the ban on homosexuality in stage-productions of play in the United Kingdom up UNTIL (or maybe even a bit later than) this play "A Taste Of Honey" (which has at least one homosexual character). There was a strategy in British theater of moving any mention of homosexuality to a mention of pedophilia, or DISPLAYING the homosexuality of a character without the WORDS "He is homosexual" or "I am homosexual" being uttered (a gambit which, in the U.S.A., got the Hays Seal (or whatever it was known as after Hays retired) for the Charlton Heston-centered remake of "Ben Hur", where screenwriter Gore Vidal made it obvious that the two men were homosexuals but because the WORD didn't appear in the film, no problem). There were also times when a "public theater" was converted into a "private club" in order to present a play with homosexuals. This play, being as it was 1958, is right at the intersection of all of these issues surrounding the presence of homosexual characters in plays produced on "public" stages in the U.K.. Are these issues within the content of play? They are and they aren't. Once source says that this play "A Taste Of Honey" was written IN RESPONSE TO Rattigan's "Variations on a Theme". I don't have the time or expertise to flesh out this article's impingement on these issues. Someone else should do so.2603:7000:9906:A91C:1C64:8308:33BC:E2D6 (talk) 01:12, 8 July 2021 (UTC)Christopher L. Simpson