John Osborne spoke out in a vein of ebullient, free-wheeling rancour that betokened the arrival of something new in the theatre - a sophisticated, articulate lower-class. Most of the critics were offended by Jimmy Porter, but not on account of his anger; a working-class hero is expected to be angry. What nettled them was something quite different: his self-confidence. This was no envious inferior whose insecurity they could pity.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

I, born in Essex thirty-four Essentially sexual years ago, Stepped down, looked around, and saw I had been cast a little low In the social register For the fri…

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

The very mudsills of society:. We call them slaves:. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is ev…