For the film, see Look Back in Anger . Look Back in Anger (1956) is a John Osborne play and 1958 movie about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man (Jimmy Porter), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife (Alison), and her snooty best friend (Helena Charles). Cliff, an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace. The play was a success on the London stage, and spawned the term "angry young men" to describe Osborne and other writers of his generation who employed harshness and realism, in contrast to what was seen as more escapist fare previously. Production The play was originally produced at London's Royal Court Theatre, with the press release calling the author an angry young man, a phrase which came to represent a new movement in 1950s British theatre. The play opened on 8 May 1956 and legend has it that audiences gasped at the sight of an ironing board on a London stage. O

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