Look Back in Anger

Play by John Osborne, first performed in 1956 at the Royal Court Theatre, and published in 1957. Set in a one-room flat in a Midlands town, its central characters are the working-class university graduate Jimmy Porter and his wife Alison. As a reaction against the English establishment and the social mores of the time, the play was a landmark which launched a new wave in British theatre and established Osborne as the leader of the Angry Young Men. The play was made into a successful film in 1959 starring Richard Burton.