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Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger
In the middle of the 1950s there was a revival of the English Theatre.
In the 30s and 40s the English Drama was dominated by the Loom
shire Plays, that is a commercial play, remote from everyday life-
problems, with characters belonging to high society. The English
Theatre had then become a form of middle-class entertainment
producing only light comedies for a limited audience. It seemed to have
nothing to offer because the main plays being staged were either by
conventional authors or by foreign ones. Among the former we can
quote Terence Rattingan, who wrote plays of characters and
narrative rather than of ideas; among the latter we may quote
Ibsen, Brect, Sartre and the Italian Ugo Betti.
NEW THEATRICAL STYLES