Word: angers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time this deplorable season, a major Boston theatre is housing a good serious play. On the basis of Look Back in Anger, John Osborne is the best prose playwright in England, and has few rivals on this side of the Atlantic. He writes from his guts as well as from his brains, in an age when few playwrights have either...
Considered either as a play or as Jimmy Porter's interrupted monologue, Look Back in Anger has more substance than can be exhausted or even touched on in this small corner of the editorial page: it combines sociological analysis, a dissection of the zeitgeist, and a moving affirmation of the romantic view that to live fully, even sorrowfully, is better than to live sealed off from experience...
...supporting actors are all adequate, which means okay-but-not-very-good, but Mr. Osborne has given them little to work with. Next to Jimmy Porter they all appear not-quite-realized. Fortunately, when Jimmy is not talking he is usually being talked about. Look Back in Anger is his play and it is a good...
Look Back in Anger. A choleric young man at war with the world makes for uneven but fairly arresting theater. In NEW HAVEN...
Look Back in Anger. A choleric young man at war with the world makes for uneven but fairly arresting theater. In RICHMOND and WILMINGTON...