Plays for England

John Osborne (1929-1994) was the leading playwright of the post-war British theatre revival: a rennaissance that is said to have started when his Look Back in Anger was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre. It led to the coining of the phrase ''angry young man'', which applied not only to Osborne but also to many new writers who criticised the system.

But Osborne was not a conventional revol...