, written by David Storey (1933-2017) in only three days, opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 22 April 1969, directed by Lindsay Anderson (1923-94). Though it was the second of Storey’s plays to be staged, it was the third he had written after the “unblock[ing]” of “a dramaturgical dam” brought about by seeing a 1967 production, in the same theatre, of his first play,
The Restoration of Arnold Middleton(“Introduction”,
Plays: Two, x). The main themes of
In Celebrationalso feature significantly in his novels: the uneasy relationship between working-class parents and their upwardly mobile children who are fulfilling, sometimes uneasily and reluctantly, their father’s ambition that they should become middle-class professionals, a goal for which, as…
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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "In Celebration". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 December 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4515, accessed 26 November 2024.]
