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Epitaph for George Dillon: John Osborne, Anthony Creighton

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Synopsis:

John Osborne's domestic and political drama of hope and disillusionment is set in a lower-middle-class household in South London. The Elliots live their unhappy suburban life until Kate Elliot brings home a surrogate for her son killed in war, the charismatic and bohemian George Dillon. He is an aspiring actor and penniless writer recently freed from the constraints of employment, his fall cushioned by the kindness of Kate Elliot.

'Epitaph for George Dillon absorbs and fascinates because it is that rarest of theatrical phenomena, a realistic modern drama which is not bourgeois in its underlying assumptions. It is like a familiar building caught at an angle which suddenly makes it look like something never seen before.' Sunday Times

Epitaph for George Dillon had its première at the Royal Court Theatre in 1958, and was revived at the Comedy Theatre, London, in September 2005.

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Genres & Themes:

Class; Suburbia