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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. The supporting characters include Cliff Lewis, an amiable Welsh ...
- John Osborne
- 8 May 1956
- 1956
- Royal Court Theatre, London
A play by John Osborne about a young couple, Alison and Jimmy, who struggle with class conflict and marital problems in 1950s England. The play explores themes of anger, suffering, and nostalgia through Jimmy's tirades, Alison's pregnancy and miscarriage, and Helena's intervention.
A British drama film based on John Osborne's play about a disillusioned, angry university graduate and his wife. The film features Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Mary Ure, and was nominated for four BAFTA Awards.
- Bkoganbing
- 3 min
- Tony Richardson
- 56
Look Back in Anger is a 1959 British kitchen sink drama film starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Mary Ure and directed by Tony Richardson.The film is based on John Osborne's play about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected working-class young man (Jimmy Porter), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife (Alison) and her haughty best friend (Helena Charles).
- Harry Saltzman, Gordon Scott
Feb 7, 2017 · John Osborne wrote Look Back in Anger pretty quickly, in just 17 days, while sitting in a deckchair on Morecambe Pier. At this stage of his life, Osborne was living in a tiny flat in Derby with his wife, the actress Pamela Lane. The marriage was not especially happy by this point, and the home life of Jimmy and Alison Porter in Look Back in ...
Look Back in Anger, play in three acts by John Osborne, performed in 1956 and published in 1957. A published description of Osborne as an “angry young man” was extended to apply to an entire generation of disaffected young British writers who identified with the lower classes and viewed the upper.
Look Back in Anger begins in the attic flat apartment of Jimmy Porter and Alison Porter. The setting is mid-1950's small town England. Jimmy and Alison share their apartment with Cliff Lewis, a young working class man who is best friends with Jimmy. Cliff and Jimmy both come from a working class background, though Jimmy has had more education ...
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