LOOK BACK IN ANGER

Jimmy Porter is full of passion and rage. Blasting his heart out on his trumpet in a smoky jive club and on deserted city streets, he roars through life and relationships. Jimmy is too big to be contained by the suffocating walls of his squalid flat shared with his suffering wife Alison (bathroom, kitchen, and best mate Cliff down the hall). Where there might be peace and quiet Porter brings chaos and a poetic but overbearing stream of vitriol against the government, writers, and the class system. He is a verbal and physical bully born out of his time with no great cause to champion. John Osborne’s era-defining creation of the angry young man is perfectly embodied by Richard Burton’s monstrous talent (when he still cared for acting). -- Chale Nafus