![]() In the second act Alison's friend Helena attempts to rescue her from her disastrous marriage Alison departs with her father, and Helena falls into Jimmy's arms. The first act opens as Alison stands ironing the clothes of Jimmy and their lodger Cliff. He is by turns violent, sentimental, maudlin, self‐pitying, and sadistic, and has a fine line in rhetoric. ![]() The action takes place in a midlands town, in the one‐room flat of Jimmy and Alison Porter, and centres on their marital conflicts, which appear to arise largely from Jimmy's sense of their social incompatibility: he is a jazz‐playing ex‐student from a ‘white tile’ university, she is a colonel's daughter. It proved a landmark in the history of the theatre, a focus for reaction against a previous generation (see Kitchen Sink Drama), and a decisive contribution to the corporate image of the Angry Young Man. ![]() Osborne, first produced by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre on, published 1957. ![]()
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