On May 8 1956, John Osborne's Look Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court in London. It shocked the theatre world, some acclaiming it as the voice of a new generation, others damning it as a squalid rant. Mark Lawson looks back to the night that changed British theatreIn early May 1956, Britain was rehearsing for destruction. A civil defence exercise took place in London and Birmingham, based on the hypothesis th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PM on March 28, 2016