Review: Look Back in Anger by Out of Context Productions

by Michael Meigs
Published on December 04, 2011

All of the young members of the cast deliver the dialogue in something close to standard U.S. speech, a fact made all the more evident by Donald Bayne's convincing accent as the stiff-upper-lip retired Colonel Redfern, Alison's father, who's come back from doing his duty for the Empire.

Encouraged by applause at last year's FronteraFest, recent graduates of Southwestern and St. Ed's are taking a great big leap right now at the Off Center. Look Back in Anger was a landmark, a watershed, a paradigm shifter (take your pick) for twentieth-century theatre in England.  With his 1956 three-act play John Osborne took clubs and cudgels to the genteel British stage, presenting his protagonist Jimmy Porter as a fiercely intelligent university graduate of lower class …

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