Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger by John Osborne. An enormously influential play, widely hailed as the start of the new realism in British theatre, it was originally produced at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1956. First produced in South Africa by Leonard Schach for the Cockpit Players at the Hofmeyr Theatre in November 1957 with Leon Gluckman and Nigel Hawthorne. Staged only a year after its premiere in England. Taubie Kushlick put it on at the Brooke Theatre in October 1957 with British actor Alan Dobie as Jimmy. In 1959 the Nederlands Kamertoneel from Antwerp produced a Dutch version of it (Wrok op Gisteren) in the NTO Kamertoneel in Pretoria. The play was as popular in South Africa in the 1950-1960s as elsewhere. Also, interestingly enough, it was the first play to be produced by TECON in 1969?*, giving its central message another spin. Other productions by ***, PACT (dir Francois Swart, 1986)

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