“I doubt I could love anyone who did not want to see Look Back in Anger ,” wrote the critic Kenneth Tynan in 1956, marking a line in the sand, a moment when the history of British theatre underwent a seismic shift and the plays of a generation of “Angry Young Men” came to define a new beginning.

And here is the Almeida, reviving Arnold Wesker’s Roots (1958) and John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger (1956) — two seminal works from the “angry young men” playwrights. Staged in repertory by one ensemble,