Stalking Out
David Edgar: After John Osborne, 20 July 2006
John Osborne: A Patriot for Us
by John Heilpern.
Chatto, 528 pp., £25, May 2006,0 7011 6780 7 Show More
by John Heilpern.
Chatto, 528 pp., £25, May 2006,
“... From within a few weeks of its opening in May 1956, it’s been accepted that John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger ushered in a theatrical revolution. Launching both the Angry Young Man and kitchen-sink drama, the play is held to have had a devastating and irreversible impact on a postwar theatre scene dominated by winsome drawing-room comedies and witless country-house whodunnits ... ”
