Look Back in Anger transformed the face of British theatre; legend has it that audiences gasped at the sight of an ironing board on a London stage John Osborne's play launched the 'angry young men' movement writers from working or middle class background who had become disillusioned with British society were sick of contemporary theatre's escapism & wanted their work to reflect life as they knew it The play tells the story of a love triangle between Jimmy an intelligent & educated man of working class background his upper-middle-class wife Alison & her superior & disdainful best-friend Helena Jimmy hates his wife's background almost as much as he hates himself Dark & savage Look Back in Anger makes readers & audiences re-examine what was once called 'the good life'