John Osborne's obsession, his master theme and his greatest gift to the theater are one and the samehimself. When his nerves begin humming like high-tension wires, when he takes his emotional temperature every other minute, when he steps into the spotlight and throws a nightlong temper tantrum, the dramatic results are explosively and corrosively alive. Whether it be Jimmy Porter (Look Back in Anger), or Archie Rice (The Entertainer), or Bill Maitland (Inadmissible Evidence), Osborne's personal mouthpiece always screams out his rage, scorn, self-pity and impotence so that an audience is...
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