‘A Taste of Honey’

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Essay Chantal Chitayi

'A Taste of Honey'

Act two, scene one is an important part of the play because Jo is near the end of her pregnancy and Helen comes back to visit her but only because Geoff had asked her too.

Previously in the play Helen had married Peter and had gone to live with him, Jo got engaged to a black boy in the Navy, she became pregnant but he didn't come back after going away with the Navy. Jo didn't have a very good relationship with her mother and they had moved about a lot as Helen ran every time she couldn't pay the rent. Jo met Geoff who is a homosexual. He hasn't had sexual relations with a man but he knows he is gay because he has had liaisons with other men. Jo has left school and was going to work in a pub part-time.

The play is 'A Taste of Honey' and I am doing part of Act two scene one where Jo, Helen and Geoff are the main characters. This play is mainly set in Jo and Helen's flat where the time is around the 1950's. Helen and