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Abstract
The first performance of John Osborne’s famous play Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court Theatre on 8 May 1956 is commonly regarded as the beginning of a new era in the British Drama. Look Back in Anger is called a significant play owing to the fact that it can be considered as a moment of change and also a reaction. Since the end of World War II, British theatre is believed to have been in rapid decline. Audiences are falling off and theatres are closing all over the country. Some of the theatre companies have been restaging plays by Chekhov, Ibsen, Shaw and Restoration comedies. Most of the companies have been trying to restore Elizabethan theatre by restaging Shakespeare plays over and over. Two of the most successful dramatists in Britain of the time have been Noel Coward and Terence Rattigan but unfortunately their celebrated plays date back to the 1930s, so they could hardly be regarded as rising new and young talents.
While British theatre is busy with restaging Restoration comedies and Elizabethan plays and verse drama, a new wave of angry writers such as Osborne and Delaney emerges. One of the main reasons for Osborne’s having a different place in British scene might be because of the fact that he was among the pioneering playwrights of Britain to become aware of the changes in the theatre abroad England. It can be inferred that Look Back in Anger is regarded as a reaction to the affected drawing-room comedies of such writers as Noel Coward, Terence Rattigan and others, which dominated the West End stage in the early 50s. Because these playwrights wrote about affluent bourgeoisie at play in the drawing-rooms of their country homes, or sections of the upper-middle class comfortable in suburbs. However, Osborne looked at the working and lower middle class people struggling with their existence in bedsits or terraces of their attic rooms in Look Back in Anger and other angry plays.