Look Back in Anger Alison irons, just as her mother had done in "Look Back". The play was not a commercial success, closing after seven weeks. It was Osborne's last play. Look Back in Anger Look Back in Anger (1956) is a realist play written by John Osborne. It focuses on the life and marital struggles of an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working class origin, Jimmy Porter, and his equally competent yet impassive upper-middle-class wife Alison. The supporting characters include Cliff Lewis, an amiable Welsh lodger who attempts to keep the peace, and Helena Charles, Alison's snobbish friend. Osborne drew
John Osborne (Australian politician) South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Paddington, serving until the Holman government appointed him to the Meat Board in 1919. Osborne died at Roseville in 1961. John Osborne (Australian politician) John Percy Osborne (1 December 1878 – 19 February 1961) was an Australian politician. He was born in Deniliquin to mining engineer Alfred John Osborne and schoolteacher Jane McCoy. He left school at fourteen to work at a mine smelters at Captains Flat, before moving to Sydney in 1902 to work as a shop assistant. He was a founding member of the Shop Assistants' Union, serving as