Anger and After [antikvár]

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The first explosive performance in May 1956 of John Osborne's bombshell, Look Back in Anger, shook the audience, delighted the critics, and left a lot of badly needed fresh air into the post-war British theatre. In this well-informed survey John Russell Taylor takes a calm look at what has been going on on the stage and television screen since that shattering first night. Avoiding both woolly theorizing about the 'new wave' and neat categorizing of writers and plays, he distinguishes four streams of new drama: Osborne's various successors at the Royal Court; Joan Littlewood's achievement in Theatre Workshop; provincial playwrights such as Arnold Wesker, whose work first appeared at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry; and the amazing success of television drama, notably A.B.C.'s 'Armchair Theatre'. Detailed analyses of the plays of more than a dozen writers and critical conclusions on them make this a knowledgeable, comprehensive book on an exciting subject.