It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan

She shows herself to the audience like the Host to the congregation.

John Osborne spoke out in a vein of ebullient, free-wheeling rancour that betokened the arrival of something new in the theatre — a sophisticated, articulate lower-class. Most of the critics were offended by Jimmy Porter, but not on account of his anger; a working-class hero is expected to be angry. What nettled them was something quite different: his self-confidence. This was no envious inferior whose insecurity they could pity.

Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.