"Archie Rice: Don't clap too hard β it's a very old building."
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Number 7; said to have been an old joke in the music-halls at the time the play was written.
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John Osborne
John Osborne (12 December 1929 β 24 December 1994) was a British playwright, producer and actor. The first production of his play Look Back in Anger in 1956 revived British theatre and gave him prominence as one of the era's Angry Young Men.
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