Donmar Warehouse, LondonJohn Osborne and Samuel Beckett are always seen as opposites. But, just as Beckett was the poet of terminal stages, so Osborne's 1964 near-monodrama is a powerful study of a tortured hero at the end of his tether. And, even though I still think The Entertainer is Osborne's masterpiece, this play's scream of pain has a visceral impact.It can be seen one of two ways. In objective reality, it sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:44PM on October 18, 2011