Aleks Sierz

Pamela Lane in 1957, the year after Look Back in Anger was first performed. On seeing the play, she was heard to exclaim: ‘Oh no, not the ironing board...’

First wife, enduring love: the passionate affair of John Osborne and Pamela Lane

31 March 2018 9:00 am

Look Back in Anger, John Osborne’s 1956 play, was a fertile cultural seedbed: out of it sprouted the Angry Young…

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