SIMON PARSONS is discomfited by an unflichingly negative portrait of motherhood and its trials
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Roots / Look Back in Anger
The Almeida, London
THE era of the angry young man. The 1950s.
All seems so long ago. But if you’re wondering why to revisit them now, the Almeida will tell you, as they bring us two towering classics tuned to the modern age.
Performed in rep at the Almeida until November 23, Arnold Wesker’s Roots (★★★★) and John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger (★★★★), in symbiosis together, hold an unassailable position in the history of British theatre.
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