In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre. 'Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all would be a significant achievement; to have done it in a first play is a minor miracle. All the qualities are there; qualities one had despaired of ever seeing on stage - the drift towards anarchy; the instinctive leftishness; the automatic rejection of official attitudes; the surrealist sense of humour... the casual promiscuity; the sense of lacking a crusade worth fighting for and; underlying all these; the determination that no one who dies shall go unmourned.' Kenneth Tynan; Observer; 13 May 1956 'Look Back in Anger... has its inarguable importance as the beginning of a revolution in the British theatre; and as the central and most immediately influential expression of the mood of its time; the mood of the angry young man .' John Russell Taylor