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 Walter Osborne John Walter Osborne John Walter Osborne (20 February 1828 – 20 November 1902) was a chemist and engineer born in Ireland, who migrated to Victoria, Australia and in Melbourne pioneered the art of photo-lithography. Osborne was born in Ireland, and received an excellent education. He emigrated to Melbourne with his wife Anne on the "Peru", listed as "engineer" (though he was later described as an analytical chemist), arriving on Christmas Day 1852. In 1857 he was employed as an assistant to Professor George Neumayer at the Flagstaff Hill magnetic observatory, a project funded by the King of Bavaria. In February