When George Devine took over the Royal Court Theatre in 1956 he put out an advert seeking “hard-hitting, uncompromising writers” who could revitalise a postwar British theatre scene still stuck in upper-class drawing rooms. He found what he was looking for in John Osborne and his play Look Back in Anger — seen by Devine as “the bomb that would blow a hole in the old theatre”.

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