This was the first play by the young actor John Osborne, and the waves it made when the Royal Court Theatre cast it into the placid sea of post-war drama have still not ceased to ripple. Look Back in Anger made Osborne’s reputation as an iconoclast, a writer prepared to depict uncomfortable truths as he saw them and unprepared to offer a panacea

Until Look back in Anger no-one quite like Jimmy Porter had ever been portrayed on the English stage, yet how well known he is to all of us: a man whose wit and capability for affection make him irresistible to both men and women, but whose restless dissatisfaction with himself makes him unable to settle to anything, makes him turn with violence on those who love him. He is still the most disturbing of Osborne’s illustrious anti-heroes.

Tuesday 31 January to Saturday 04 February 2012 at 7.30pm

Presented by King Edward VI Grammar School

South Pacific, set on a tropical island during World War II, tells the romantic story of two couples — US Navy nurse Nellie Forbush and French plantation owner Emile de Becque, and Navy Airman Joe Cable and a young local native girl Liat — and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of war and by their own prejudices. This portrayal of Americans stationed in an alien culture in wartime is as relevant today as when it first thrilled audiences in 1949 and is considered by many to be the finest musical ever written.

The score includes such classics as “Some Enchanted Evening,” ”I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right outa My Hair,” “This Nearly was Mine,” and “There is Nothin’ Like A Dame.”

With its extraordinary score, unforgettable songs and poignant script Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific is a show not to be missed.

Tickets £8.50, Concessions £6.50