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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Look Back in Anger
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(1956)
The play which more than any other became identified with the mood of the *angry young men and inaugurated a new wave in the British theatre. The first work by John *Osborne to be seen in London, it was the outstanding feature of the first season of the *English Stage Company. The play is fuelled by the high-octane rhetoric of Jimmy Porter (working-class university graduate, now manning a sweet stall) as he rails at his wife Alison (a colonel's daughter) and ridicules the posh Sunday papers and a string of other targets identified as middle-class.
Look Back in Anger was filmed in 1959 with Richard Burton playing the lead, and Osborne portrayed Jimmy Porter nearly 40 years on in his play Déjà Vu (1992).
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