Look Back in Anger

Bridge Theatre Coniston (Bridge St, Coniston)

[THEATRE] in association with Theatre South presents: John Osborne's

LOOK BACK IN ANGER

Starring Nicole Archer, Samuel Booth, Katrina Rautenberg, Glen Woolgar
and featuring Ian McGrath as the Colonel..

Directed by Brendan McDonall, Designed by John Senczuk, Lighting by Brendon McDonall

Look Back in Anger is a brilliantly observed, utterly compelling and disturbingly intimate drama. University-educated Jimmy Porter is holed up in a dingy bed-sit with his middle-class wife Alison, his trumpet and his rage. With the marriage at crisis point, their self-styled "nut-house" echoes to the sound of banter and battling. Until Helena, an actress friend of Alison"s, arrives.

Hailed by Arthur Miller as "the only modern, English play," Look Back in Anger was a "land-mine" that exploded all the old theatrical conventions when it was premiered London in 1956 and changed British theatre for ever. The "angry young man" was born! Nearly fifty years later this vibrant, startling and passionate play has lost none of its dramatic resonance.

John Osborne (1929-1994) began his career as an actor. Look Back in Anger was the first play by a new dramatist produced by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court and in effect set off a whole revival of British drama. His other work for the stage included The Entertainer, The World of Paul Slickey, Luthor and Inadmissible Evidence. He died as a result of complications from Diabetes and he left behind a large body of works for the stage and the small screen, as well as several autobiographical works. Several of his plays were also adapted for film and in 1963, Osborne won an Academy Award for his screenplay for Tom Jones.

Square Brackets is pleased to welcome local Illawarra director/actor Brendon McDonall to the Company to direct this major revival. Brendon graduated from Theatre Nepean in 2000 where his graduation productions included The Man from Mukinupin, Playboy of the Western World, Richard II and Traitors. As a director his credits include Search and Destroy (New Theatre), From Here to There (ATYP), Sh"larba (NSW Ministry for the Art), Whistle Down the Wind, Our Country"s Good and recently, Henry V (Theatre Nepean). In the last year he played in Theatre South"s Hamlet and Hating Alison Ashley, and toured nationally in Morris Gleitzman"s Worry Warts; he was also the Artistic Director of On Border Line, Railway Street Theatre"s Youth Drama Festival.

Where: Bridge Theatre - Coniston
When: 8-18 October
Wednesday 8 October, 8.00pm, Thursday 9 October, 8.00pm, Saturday 11 October, 2.00 (matinee) & 8.00pm, Sunday 12 October, 5.00pm (matinee), Wednesday 15, October, 11.00am (matinee) & 8.00pm, Thursday 16 October, 8.00pm, Friday 17 October, 6.00pm (Matinee), Saturday 18 October, 2.00 (matinee) & 8.00pm, Sunday 18 October, 5.00pm (matinee).
NB No Performance Friday 10 October

Ticket Prices: $15 / $12 (concession); $8 (Science Centre Members and FCA Students)

Bookings: Through the IPAC on 42263366

Last reviewed: 25 March, 2008