Marking the 55th Anniversary of John Osborne’s seminal play, Look Back in Anger, brilliant young theatre company Creative Cow will be touring their production to venues across southern England from April to June this year.
Look Back In Anger transformed English theatre when it was first performed in the 1950s. Its raw realism made John Osborne’s name and he soon became known as the original ‘Angry Young Man’. Now Creative Cow proposes to take the play across southern England to theatres, halls, and – in line with the play’s realism, perhaps – to a pub, for a rather different night out at ‘the local’.
Says Katherine Senior, one of the founding members of Creative Cow, “We’re doing this play not only because it’s an iconic classic of British theatre (which it is), but because it matters. It’s still important, a “landmark of British theatre” as Harold Hobson called it, which remains deeply relevant today. John Osborne’s writing is very, very good and shouts for our attention. Seeing the play from a perspective of 55 years on gives us – actors and audiences – a brilliant chance to re-assess its value.”
The play has been directed by Creative Cow’s Artistic Director Amanda Knott, whose credits (after an early career as a dancer with the Ballet Rambert), include posts as Associate Director of the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, Staff Producer at Kent Opera assisting Jonathan Miller and Assistant Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Company member Katherine Senior plays Alison Porter and Jonathan Parish plays Cliff Lewis. Piers Wehner is Jimmy Porter, with Lizzy Dive playing Helena Charles and Jack Hulland as Colonel Redfern.
Creative Cow is a small professional touring theatre company founded in 2007 by three professional theatre practitioners: two professional actors and a skilled artistic director. The company is called Creative Cow because it was conceived on a cattle farm in Devon where productions are managed and rehearsed before touring. It tours to small rural and unusual venues, as well as to more high-profile theatre venues.
For more information on the company and the production, visit: www.creativecow.co.uk. For tickets see individual venues.
