In Shelagh Delaney's `A Taste of Honey', there is a variety of key elements that create adept drama throughout the scenes. I shall mainly focus on Act 2 Scene 1 of the play commenting on how she has made good drama by cleverly building up the suspense, associating it with the significance of the play as a whole whenever relevant.

As a start, many of the people in the 1960s were enthusiastic about the forthcoming play as during most of the fifties, British cinema was in a somewhat tired phase, repeating the same clichéd war stories and predictable gothic horrors over and over. So, many Londoners at the time were eagerly anticipating a hit, even if it took place in the theatre. `A Taste of Honey' was shortly launched in the new British wave known as the `Social Problem Films'.

In the early stages of...