Premiered after the Suez crisis, Osborne's portrait of a clapped-out music hall star mirrored a Britain in decline. Sixty years on, it continues to reflect a country questioning its place in the worldJohn Osborne's The Entertainer is back, bang on cue: a play in which the nation frets about immigration ("Bloody Irish! Bloody Poles!" cries one character) and our uncertain place in the world ("People seem to be able to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:34AM on August 12, 2016