Friday 13 June 2014

John Osborne

John Osborne, The author of “look back in anger” was born December 12th 1929 and died December 24th 1994. John Osborne was an English playwright actor, screenwriter and critic who specialised in genera’s such as “social realism” and” Kitchen sink dramas”. John Osborne was one of the first writers in the imperial age to address Britain’s purpose, John Osborne helped make Contempt an acceptable and now a desired emotion for the stage and he also the first to question the point of monarchy on a prominent public stage. John Osborne’s work includes

• The Devil Inside Him, 1950, Theatre
• The Great Bear, 1951, Theatre
• Personal Enemy, 1955, Theatre
• Look Back In Anger, 1956, Theatre
• The Entertainer, 1957, Theatre
• Epitaph For George Dillon, 1958, Theatre
• A Subject Of Scandal And Concern, 1960, Television
• Luther, 1961, Theatre
• Plays For England, 1962, Theatre
• The blood Of The Bambergs, 1962, Theatre
• Under Plain Cover
• Toms James, 1963, Screenplay
• Inadmissible Evidence, 1964, Theatre
• A Patriot For Me, 1965, Theatre
• A Bond Honoured, 1966, Theatre
• The Hotel in Amsterdam, 1968, Theatre
• Time Present, 1968, Theatre
• The Charge Of The Light Brigade, 1958, Screenplay
• The parachute,1968, Television
• The Right Prospectus, 1970, Television
• West Of Suez, 1971, Theatre
• A Sense Of Detachment, 1972, Theatre
• A Gift Of Friendship, 1972, Television
• Hedder Gabler, 1972, theatre
• A Place Calling Itself Rome, 1973, Theatre
• Ms, or Jill And Jack, 1971, Television
• The End Of Me Old Cigar, 1975, Theatre
• The Picture Of Dorian Grey, 1975, Theatre
• Almost a vision, 1975, Theatre
• Watch It Come Down, 1976, Theatre
• Try A Little Tenderness, 1978, Theatre
• Very Like A Whale, 1980, Television
• You’re Not Watching Me Mummy, 1980, Television
• A Better Class Of Person 1981, Book (autobiography volume 1)
• A better class of person 1985, Television
• God Rot Tunbridge Walls, 1985, Television
• The Father, 1989, Theatre
• Almost a Gentlemen, 1991, Book ( autobiography volume 2)
• Déjàvu , 1992, Theatre

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