Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Angry Young Men fell to fisticuffs last week. Named from 27-year-old John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger, they are a group of young firebrands of exhibitionist bent who have been rattling London's literary teacup, with dozens of short-tempered novels, plays, films and reviews, all of which have said one thing loud and clear: they are fed to the teeth with the state of both the British Empire and British letters...
...Play As Prologue. Last week the battle was joined at Sloane Square's Royal Court Theatre, a small auditorium where advanced people gather to witness advanced plays. The current offering was The Tenth Chance, a first play by 25-year-old Stuart Holroyd, about a Norwegian resistance leader in World War II. By the middle of the last act, Holroyd's agnostic hero was beginning to find God in the extremity of his suffering at the hands of Nazi torturers. Up stood Christopher Logue, 31, a leftist poet passionately engaged in the campaign to ban the bomb...
...next thing I could hear," said Logue later, "was Wilson shouting 'Stand up, Logue, stand up, Logue,' in the true, lower-middle-class English fashion." Wilson flailed wildly at Tynan. "You deliberately tried to sabotage the play," he shouted. "I'll stamp you out, Tynan. Literature isn't big enough for both...
Some such scheme, argued Gaillard last week, "is one of the last cards we can play to keep the Arab countries on the Western side...
Ovation. Listeners over 14, said Miller, are rebelling by turning off radios and programing for themselves with phonographs. He snorted at the jockeys' attempt to justify what they play by arguing that they only "give them what they want." Asked he: "Does the demand for a record come because you play it first, or do the kids demand it because they find it in the Top 40? If the Top 40 is an election, will somebody please blow the whistle for the Honest Ballot Association?" Miller's prescription for foresighted station owners: "Guide sub-teen tastes so that...