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Feb 3, 2012 · High concept makes for low impact in the new Roundabout Theater Company revival of John Osborne’s classic 1956 play, “Look Back in Anger,” directed by Sam Gold and starring Matthew Rhys of...
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- February 3, 2012
Sep 19, 2024 · “Look Back in Anger,” teeming with fury and frustration at the hidebound British class system, sparked the Angry Young Men movement in literature and theater in the 1950s.
Sep 26, 2024 · Look Back In Anger is the story of Jimmy who is intelligent but struggling to find his purpose in life, running a sweet stall with his lodger Cliff and married to the similarly capable Alison who has deserted her privileged family to be in these unfamiliar surroundings.
Feb 2, 2012 · The groundbreaking play, directed by Sam Gold, is a dark drama about the turbulent relationship between a young married couple — the working-class Jimmy ( Matthew Rhys) and the middle-class Alison...
Look Back in Anger (1956) is a realist play written by John Osborne. It focuses on the life and marital struggles of an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working-class origin, Jimmy Porter, and his equally competent yet impassive upper-middle-class wife Alison.
- John Osborne
- 1956
In Northern England, frustrated college dropout Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) plays music at a jazz club at night and by day works at a candy stall with partner Cliff Lewis (Gary Raymond), who...
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Feb 8, 2018 · *** A Pyrrhic Victory When it first exploded onto the scene before an unsuspecting British public in 1956, John Osborne’s semi-autobiographical “Look Back In Anger” was a breath of fresh air, one that would go on to change the face of British theatre.
