Gold has denuded the play of any semblance of Englishness and class, an issue that should be central to the argument between the bullying, blue-collar Jimmy Porter (Matthew Rhys) and his browbeaten middle-class wife, Alison (Sarah Goldberg).

NEWYORKER: A Talent to Abuse

Popular at first as a working-class liquid lunch, the style took on the name of its barrel-schlepping fans: porter.

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