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Kenneth Haigh obituary by Michael Coveney

Actor who took the role of Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger, the groundbreaking 1956 play by John OsborneThe actor Kenneth Haigh, who has died aged 86, was the original Jimmy Porter in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956, the game-changing new play that gave voice to a new generation, a disaffected, provincial, working class, alienated by the Sunday newspapers, disgusted by the drearine…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AM on February 13, 2018

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