The Blood of the Bambergs (1962) is a short two-act play by John Osborne, published in his book "Plays for England". It was designed to be shown in a...

Plays for England, comprising The Blood of the Bambergs and Under Plain Cover (1962). Luther, depicting the life of Martin Luther, was first performed...

John Osborne's play The Blood of the Bambergs (1962) turns the plot into a satire on royal weddings. The 1965 comedy film The Great Race included an...

by John Osborne. It focuses on the life and marital struggles of an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working-class origin, Jimmy Porter...

Wrede for the 59 Theatre Company at the Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith) (1960) The Blood of the Bambergs by John Osborne. Directed by John Dexter at the Royal...

Late, 1959 Beyond the Fringe (also co-writer), 1960 The Blood of the Bambergs, 1962 A Cuckoo in the Nest, 1964 Forty Years On (also writer), 1968 Sing...

The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1968 British DeLuxe Color satirical war film made by Woodfall Film Productions and distributed by United Artists...

Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace. The character of Ma Tanner, only referred to in the play, is brought to life in the film by Edith Evans as a dramatic...

Limited in London in 1962. It comprised The Blood of the Bambergs and Under Plain Cover. The Blood of the Bambergs, subtitled “A Fairy Story,” was originally...

adapted by John Osborne and Nigel Kneale from Osborne's stage play of the same name. The film stars Laurence Olivier as Archie Rice, a failing third-rate...

double-bill with another short play, The Blood of the Bambergs. The play is a satirical commentary on sexual hypocrisy. It was the first play directed by Jonathan...

The protagonist of the play is William Maitland, a 39-year-old English solicitor who has come to hate his entire life. Much of the play consists of lengthy...

written in blood with a broadaxe. It is bawdy as the British were bawdy when a wench had to wear five petticoats to barricade her virtue". Rich Gold of Variety...

as "the embodiment of a national mood ... Archie was the future, the decline, the sourness, the ashes of old glory, where Britain was heading". The first...

was Osborne's final work for the theatre, the failure of which on the stage made him decide to give up play-writing. The play is a sequel to Osborne's...

play by the English playwright John Osborne, based on the true story of Alfred Redl. The controversial refusal of a performance licence by the Lord Chamberlain's...

Banes and Fran Brill, and directed by Lindsay Anderson and David Hugh Jones. The film is based on John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger. Look Back in Anger...

Look Back in Anger is a 1989 British videotaped television production of John Osborne's play. It features Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Siobhan Redmond...

The Father is a play by British playwright John Osborne. An adaptation of August Strindberg's Swedish original, it opened at the National Theatre on 26...

bone, blood and marrow; the prose, especially in Luther's sermons, throbs with a rhetorical zeal not often heard in English historical drama since the seventeenth...

supporters. Luther denies this, and the knight wipes blood across Luther's white surplice. The film recaps to the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt in 1506...

Bennett. John Osborne wrote the screenplay, adapting his own 1964 play Inadmissible Evidence. The film portrays the collapse of an angry but sad man who...

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is a television play episode of the BBC One anthology television series Play of the Month It stars Peter Firth, Jeremy Brett...

Hungarian director István Szabó. The plot, set in the period before World War I, follows the rise of Alfred Redl, an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Redl...

columnists. After the huge successes of Osborne's previous plays Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer, the play was to become "one of the most spectacular...

play, one of two he wrote in collaboration with Anthony Creighton (the other is Personal Enemy). It was written before Look Back in Anger, the play which...

us the story of the Constant family. Mrs Constant is the head of the household and inspiration of the town. Her qualities and principles embody the ethos...

childhood and early life, it ends with the first performance of Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court Theatre in 1956. The book emphasises his warm relationship...

Norris in the title role. It is a biographical play about the life of Luther during the years of 1506–1530. The play shows his marriage and the interactions...

age of prosperity, union, civil liberty and good government unstained with civil blood unfolded. The agents of this prosperity, personified by the rider...