{"product_id":"9780571038480-look-back-in-anger","title":"Look Back in Anger","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnyone who's never watched someone die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLook Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1956. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'John Osborne didn't contribute to British theatre: he set off a landmine called \u003ci\u003eLook Back in Anger\u003c\/i\u003e and blew most of it up.' Alan Sillitoe \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A story of youthful insecurity inflamed by lack of opportunity and the terrifying, destabilizing force of love . Jimmy Porter could fill an opera house with his bellowing hunger for a bigger, better life and a loyal love to share it with.' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eLook Back in Anger \u003c\/i\u003epresents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all would be a signal 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 the 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 . \u003cb\u003eI doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see \u003ci\u003eLook Back in Anger\u003c\/i\u003e. It is the best young play of its decade.' Kenneth Tynan, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'How bracing, and, yes, even shocking, its white-hot fury remains.' \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis edition includes an introduction by Michael Billington and an afterword by David Hare.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449697677686,"sku":"9780571038480","price":8.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29973736.jpg?v=1760446493","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571038480-look-back-in-anger","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}