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Personal Enemy, the Glossary

Personal Enemy is a play by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton.^[1]

20 relations: American Dream, Anthony Creighton, British Library, Communism, Gay, Harrogate, House Un-American Activities Committee, Joanne King, John Osborne, Korean War, Look Back in Anger, Lord Chamberlain, McCarthyism, North Korea, Peter Nichols (playwright), Prisoner of war, Royal Court Theatre, Social realism, White Bear Theatre, 59E59 Theaters.
1954 plays
Plays by John Osborne

American Dream

The American Dream is the national ethos of the United States, that every person has the freedom and opportunity to succeed and attain a better life.

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Anthony Creighton

Anthony Creighton (1922, Swanage – 22 March 2005), a British actor and writer, is best known as the co-author of the play Epitaph for George Dillon with John Osborne.

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

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Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Gay

Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.

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Harrogate

Harrogate is a spa town in the district and county of North Yorkshire, England.

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House Un-American Activities Committee

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties.

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Joanne King

Joanne King (born 20 April 1983) is an Irish actress.

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John Osborne

John James Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and entrepreneur, who is regarded as one of the most influential figures in post-war theatre.

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Korean War

The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.

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Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger (1956) is a realist play written by John Osborne. Personal Enemy and Look Back in Anger are plays by John Osborne.

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Lord Chamberlain

The Lord Chamberlain of the Household is the most senior officer of the Royal Household of the United Kingdom, supervising the departments which support and provide advice to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom while also acting as the main channel of communication between the Sovereign and the House of Lords.

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McCarthyism

McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.

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North Korea

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia.

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Peter Nichols (playwright)

Peter Richard Nichols (31 July 1927 – 7 September 2019) was an English playwright, screenwriter, director and journalist.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre, at different times known as the Court Theatre, the New Chelsea Theatre, and the Belgravia Theatre, is a non-commercial West End theatre in Sloane Square, London, England.

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Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions.

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White Bear Theatre

The White Bear Theatre is a fringe theatre founded in 1988 at the White Bear pub in Kennington, London, and run by Artistic Director and founder Michael Kingsbury.

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59E59 Theaters

59E59 Theaters is a curated rental venue located in New York City that consists of three theater spaces or stages.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Enemy