Look Back in Anger
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Look Back in Anger is a landmark 1956 stage play by John Osborne that helped launch the British "kitchen sink" realist movement and the era of the "angry young men" in postwar theatre.
Observed surface forms (2)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Look Back in Anger (1959 film) | 1 |
| Look Back in Anger (1980 television film) | 1 |
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drama
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stage play ⓘ |
| author | John Osborne ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateWritten | 1955 ⓘ |
| director | Tony Richardson ⓘ |
| dramaticForm | three-act play ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceCompany |
English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre
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surface form:
English Stage Company
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| firstPublisher | Faber and Faber ⓘ |
| genre |
kitchen sink realism
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realist drama ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Look Back in Anger
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Look Back in Anger (1959 film)
Look Back in Anger self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Look Back in Anger (1980 television film)
Look Back in Anger (1989 television film) ⓘ |
| hasSubjectHeading |
British drama—20th century
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Married people—Drama ⓘ Working class—Drama ⓘ |
| hasTranslation | multiple languages ⓘ |
| influenced |
British New Wave
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surface form:
British New Wave cinema
postwar British theatre ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| mainCharacter |
Alison Porter
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Cliff Lewis ⓘ Helena Charles ⓘ Jimmy Porter ⓘ |
| movement | Angry Young Men ⓘ |
| notableFor |
launching the kitchen sink realist movement in British theatre
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popularizing the term Angry Young Men ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalTheatre |
Almeida Theatre
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surface form:
Royal Court Theatre
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| period | post-World War II era ⓘ |
| placeOfPremiere |
Almeida Theatre
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surface form:
Royal Court Theatre
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| premiereStatus | landmark of postwar British theatre ⓘ |
| producer |
English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre
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surface form:
English Stage Company
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| publicationYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| setting | a one-room flat in the English Midlands ⓘ |
| subject |
class conflict
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disillusionment ⓘ marital conflict ⓘ postwar British society ⓘ |
| theme |
alienation of the educated working class
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emotional violence in relationships ⓘ frustration with the British class system ⓘ |
| timeSetting | mid-1950s ⓘ |
| yearOfPremiere | 1956 ⓘ |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Look Back in Anger (1959 film)
this entity surface form:
Look Back in Anger (1980 television film)