As one of the emerging young dramatists of the late 1950s and early 1960s, John Arden was unable to share the durability of his confreres, Harold Pinter and John Osborne, partly because much of his work left audiences perplexed. But since his heyday, his work has occasionally been reassessed, leading to the possibility that posterity may treat him more kindly.
SOURCE: The Stage at 11:46AM on April 13, 2012