Look Back in Anger
From: Wednesday, 16th August 2006
To: Saturday, 2 September 2006
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
In an ordinary city centre flat, lives a young man with a dark anger inside of him, the clock ticks as he waits. This is the story of a complex mind in a too simple world, caught between loathing and love, he struggles to control the terrible destruction that boils within. 1950's drama dominated by the archetypal Angry Young Man, Jimmy Porter. In 1956 this play changed the course of British theatre and heralded the beginning of a renaissance.
Our Review:
23 August 2006
1956 - The Suez debacle and Look Back in Anger. The two events are indelibly intertwined. But one has all but disappeared from the public memory; the other has become iconic. So it’s not surprising that Peter Gill’s production bringing Peter Hall’s 2006 Bath season to a close should have been so eagerly anticipated. Despite all the celebrations surrounding the Royal Court’s 50th anniversary celebrations - and a special evening given over to Osborne - this is the only major production Look Back in Anger will have had this year.
Despite this, and all the legacy baggage it carries, the burning question remains: how does the play stand up? Indeed, does it stand up at all now as any kind of play-for-today? Peter Hall himself has thrown some doubt upon it by stating that Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, the 50th anniversary of which he marked with his own production last year (revived this year), is probably the greater classic.
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Cast
Richard Coyle (Jimmy Porter)
Creative
John Osborne (Author)
Theatre Royal Bath (Producer)
Peter Hall Company (Producer)
Peter Gill (Director)
William Dudley (Design)
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