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LOOK BACK IN ANGER
1988
Written in 1956 by John Osborne, Look Back in Anger - one of the first examples of kitchen sink drama -
depicts the struggles of Jimmy Porter, a disaffected working-class man and his middle-class wife Alison.
Helena, Alison’s upper-class friend has an affair with Jimmy, but gives in to middle class morals that force
her to leave him. The ‘angry young man’ came to describe Osborne and those of his generation who
repudiated escapist theatre in favour of realism. I played Helena.
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