Look Back in Anger

Jimmy Porter barely ekes out a living running a candy stall by day and playing jazz trumpet by night. Although he usually takes his frustrations out on his emotionless wife, Jimmy's scathing tongue and self-loathing seems destined to destroy everything.

Set in the UK at the dawn of the 60's social unrest, this savage morality tale spawned the phrase "angry young man."

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:

Steven Brand as Cliff

Moira Quirk as Alison

Simon Templeman as Jimmy

James Warwick as Colonel Redhorn

Joanne Whalley as Helena

Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience at the James Bridges Theater, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in March, 2012.

This recording also includes an interview with Dan Rebellato, author of "1956 and All That: The Making of Modern British Drama."

John Osborne is Professor of Art History at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is a medievalist and cultural historian who has published widely on the art and architecture of Rome and Venice between the third and sixteenth centuries.

Moira Quirk is a British actress who is best known as the referee of the Nickelodeon game show "Nickelodeon GUTS"; she is also known as the voice of Brit Krust in the Nicktoon series "My Life as a Teenage Robot". In addition to her work in television, Quirk has voiced a number of video game characters and is an accomplished audiobook narrator.