Renaissance Theatre Company both the theatre and television productions of "Look Back in Anger" by John Osborne, presented first in Belfast then in London at the Lyric Theatre, starring Branagh as Jimmy Porter and Emma Thompson as Alison. Renaissance moved into different mediums such as Branagh's Academy Award-winning film version of Henry V, but also by producing three Shakespeare plays on radio: "Hamlet", "Romeo and Juliet", and finally, "King Lear" starring Sir John Gielgud. The company's last two major stage productions were "Uncle Vanya" (with Richard Briers and Peter Eyre) and "Coriolanus" produced in conjunction with the Chichester Festival Theatre and starring Kenneth
John Osborne him he would like to make the play the fourth production to enter repertory. The play was directed by Tony Richardson and starred Kenneth Haigh, Mary Ure and Alan Bates. It was George Fearon, a part-time press officer at the theatre, who invented the phrase "angry young man". Fearon told Osborne that he disliked the play and feared it would be impossible to market. In 1993, a year before his death, Osborne wrote that the opening night was "an occasion I only partly remember, but certainly with more accuracy than those who subsequently claimed to have been present and, if