PDF Fragile Land (Oberon Modern Plays) by Tanika Gupta in Arts-Photography

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The first performance of Look Back in Anger in 1956 ushered in a new period of British theatre; and its success established the previously unknown John Osborne as a new playwright of the first rank. Contrary to popular perception; Look Back was not Osbornes first play to be performed; and two of his early plays had already enjoyed professional productions. Copies of the scripts; thought to have been lost; were rediscovered in the British Library in 2008; and are presented for the first time here.The Devil Inside Him (1950) was the 21 year-old Osbornes earliest attempt at a full-length play; and concerns a young Welshman; Huw; at odds with the hypocrisy and imaginative poverty of his community. It was re-written with help from Osbornes then-lover; Stella Linden.Personal Enemy (1955) was written with Anthony Creighton with whom Osborne later collaborated with on Epitaph for George Dillon. Set in small-town America during summer of 1953 - at the height of the anti-communist witch-hunts - the play tells the story of a family torn apart by a countrys political; and sexual; paranoia.