Anger and After

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Revised and expanded edition
The first explosive performance in May 1956 of John
Osborne's bombshell, Look Back in Anger, shook the
audience, divided the critics, and let 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
five 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; the amazing success of television
drama, notably A.B.C.'s 'Armchair Theatre'; and the group
of more advanced new dramatists first produced in London
at the revitalized Arts Theatre Club. Detailed analyses of
the plays of mpre... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Revised and expanded edition
The first explosive performance in May 1956 of John
Osborne's bombshell, Look Back in Anger, shook the
audience, divided the critics, and let 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
five 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; the amazing success of television
drama, notably A.B.C.'s 'Armchair Theatre'; and the group
of more advanced new dramatists first produced in London
at the revitalized Arts Theatre Club. Detailed analyses of
the plays of mpre than a dozen writers and critical
conclusions oh them make this a knowledgeable,
comprehensive book on an exciting subject.
'Writes clearly and persuasively, furnishing a most
intelligent and well-balanced guide to the post-Osborne
drama in Britain today' - Guardian
'An excellent book, indispensable to anyone genuinely
interested in contemporary drama' - Martin Esslin in the
Listener
The cover shows a studio scene during the Woodfall Films production of Look Back
in Anger, starring Richard Burton Vissza