John Osborne's Play "Look Back In Anger". First American Edition, c. 1957, this is the Fifth Printing, 1968. S.G. Phillips, Inc.
An excellent hard cover copy of this play in 3 acts. Great condition, almost new. 6-3/8" x 8-1/8", 96 clean pages with no marks, no names, no writings. NOT library. Very good dust jacket with 2-3 small closed & repaired tears--now in a new mylar cover shops. Note the B&W photo of stage scene with actors (Kenneth Haigh and Mary Ure) which spreads across the front and back of the DJ.
The text of the play, first performed in London in 1956, depicts the despair of post-war youth. In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre.'Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all would be a significant achievement; to have done it in a first play is a minor miracle. All the qualities are there, qualities one had despaired of ever seeing on stage - the drift towards anarchy, the instinctive 'leftishness', the automatic rejection of "official" attitudes, the surrealist sense of humour... the casual promiscuity, the sense of lacking a crusade worth fighting for and, underlying all these, the determination that no one who dies shall go unmourned.' Kenneth Tynan, Observer, 13 May 1956' Look Back in Anger... has its inarguable importance as the beginning of a revolution in the British theatre, and as the central and most immediately influential expression of the mood of its time, the mood of the "angry young man".' John Russell Taylor
MOVIE VERSION: In Northern England, frustrated college dropout Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) plays music at a jazz club at night and by day works at a candy stall with partner Cliff Lewis (Gary Raymond), who lives with Jimmy and his wife, Alison (Mary Ure). Embittered by the strictures of working-class life, Jimmy constantly insults Alison, whose family is upper class. When Alison invites her best friend, self-assured Helena (Claire Bloom), to stay with them, Jimmy's grievances threaten to boil over.
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Product code: John Osborne's Play shops "Look Back In Anger" , Vintage Hardcover