It’s been 50 years since John Osborne’s much-lauded play, Look Back In Anger was published, and many in the theatre world are falling all over themselves to celebrate the classic. But is Osborne’s work really worth celebrating? “Even taking into account Osborne’s physical and emotional suffering at the hands of women, his misogyny was extreme… A defective, even disgusting, personality doesn’t rule out the creation of great art; many artists can leave theirs in the unsatisfying world of real life while they get on with creating a better one. This is not the case, however, with Look Back in Anger, which is weakened not so much by misogyny as by immaturity.”