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 Walter Osborne his rights to The American Photolithographic Company. He later moved to Palo Alto, California, here he died. His wife survived him but they had no children. 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