TY - JOUR T1 - Theatre: <em>A Taste of Honey</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 78 LP - 78 DO - 10.3399/bjgp20X707933 VL - 70 IS - 691 AU - Moira Davies Y1 - 2020/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/70/691/78.abstract N2 - Trafalgar Studios, London, 10 December 2019 to 29 February 2020‘I’m not frightened of the darkness outside. It’s the darkness inside houses I don’t like.’The above is a line from the play I have always found most touching and revealing because it betrays the emotional neglect of a daughter, as covered up by the sharp retorts and clipped, blackly comic wisecracks of both mother and daughter — the two main protagonists in the play A Taste of HoneyA vigorous new production has opened at the Trafalgar Studios in London. Directed by Bijan Sheibani, the play once said to have changed British theatre has the talented performer and singer Jodie Prenger in its lead role as Helen, a ballsy, unsympathetic, selfish, calculating woman, never without a drink in her hand. For its time, portraying a woman, mean on her own terms, was something of a revelation.Shelagh Delaney, born in 1938 in Salford, Lancashire, wrote the play (her debut) in … ER -