26 January - 25 February 1995

LOOK BACK IN ANGER

by John Osborne

Jimmy Porter MICHAEL SHEEN
Alison Porter CLAIRE SKINNER
Cliff Lewis DOMINIC ROWAN
Helena Charles HERMIONE NORRIS
Colonel Redfern PHILIP BOWEN

Director GREGORY HERSOV
Designer LAURA HOPKINS
Lighting VINCE HERBERT
Sound AKINTAYO AKINBODE & CHRIS MONKS
Fights NICHOLAS HALL
Trumpet JOHN HULME

Gregory Hersov's production is a genuinely thrilling event. The show blazes with pain, fury and passion....Michael Sheen's tempestuous, electrifying performance...his infuriatingly calm friend Cliff (the excellent Dominic Rowan)...and Alison (a performance of astonishing emotional vulnerability from Claire Skinner)...
Charles Spencer The Daily Telegraph

Let's get it straight. This is good: both production, starring Michael Sheen, and play...Claire Skinner's Alison has a beautiful, big-eyed, ivory purity. Sheen is a phenomenally talented young actor who makes thefuture of British theatre look bright. His Jimmy is a Midlands Hamlet: funny, desperate, passionate, lacerating.
Kate Bassett The Times

...the impressive new revival of...Look Back In Anger at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.....The brilliant Michael Sheen...detonates like a time-bomb and howls to the moon like a wounded animal.
Michael Coveney The Observer

Gregory Hersov's production of Look Back In Anger at the Manchester Royal Exchange is the first important staging of an Osborne play since the man died, and it is totally and rivetingly right: it opens up on you with a rugged, scruffy eloquence as if it had been written yesterday.
John Peter The Sunday Times