Déjàvu Déjàvu Déjàvu (1992) is a stage play by John Osborne. It was Osborne's final work for the theatre, the failure of which on the stage made him decide to give up play-writing. The play is a sequel to Osborne's first successful play, "Look Back in Anger" (1956); it portrays the life and thoughts of the central character from the earlier play, Jimmy Porter (referred to as J.P.), in middle age. Osborne had been thinking about a sequel to "Look Back in Anger" for some years, and had been working on a draft of the play since 1987 when he started
John Osborne (Australian politician) 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 secretary from 1902 to 1907 and later as president. In 1906, he married Julia Rosenfeld, with whom he had three children. In 1910 he was elected to the New