This video is an interview with John Osborne in 1957 after the opening of his play The Entertainer. The woman interviewing him asks him about his feelings towards the portrayal of the Archie Rice (the main character) by Sir Laurence Olivier. Interestingly enough you can hear her ask about whether he considers this an "angry play", no doubt referring to his first successful play Look Back in Anger.
(the interview starts about :30 seconds in)
Also included in this blog post is a review from a London periodical named "The Spectator" printed on April 19, 1957. Reviewer David Watt says that while "entertaining... as a play it is a brilliant disappointment." His chief complaint being that Osborne does not seem to have moved on from his first success found in Look Back in Anger. He touches on this in some of his final thoughts saying, "Mr. Osborne is in two difficulties: first, to decide whose ears he is really aiming at, and, second, to try with his trail of phosphorescent paint, his dialogue, to picture human beings without anger."
Ouch.
*click here for: David Watt's Review of THE ENTERTAINER *
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