id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2046 John Osborne - Wikipedia .html text/html 7303 700 76 He soon became involved as a stage manager and acting, joining Anthony Creighton's provincial touring company.[9] Osborne tried his hand at writing plays, co-writing his first, The Devil Inside Him, with his mentor Stella Linden, who then directed it at the Theatre Royal in Huddersfield in 1950. When he first saw Look Back in Anger, Laurence Olivier was dismissive, viewing the play as unpatriotic and bad theatre, "a travesty on England".[15] At the time, Olivier was making a film of Rattigan's The Prince and the Showgirl co-starring Marilyn Monroe, and she was accompanied to London by her then-husband Arthur Miller. John Osborne's plays in the 1970s included West of Suez which starred Ralph Richardson, A Sense of Detachment, first produced at the Royal Court in 1972, and the disappointing Watch It Come Down, first produced at the National Theatre, starring Frank Finlay. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2046.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2046.txt