Overview
Character Name
Jimmy Porter
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Role Size
Lead
Voice
Spoken
Time & Place
the porters’ one-room flat in the midlands of england. the present (1956).
Analysis
Age 25. British accent. Jimmy is educated, but maintains a distinctly lower-class, slangy accent, perhaps Cockney. As Osborne describes him, “Jimmy is a tall, thin young man about twenty-five, wearing a very worn tweed jacket and flannels. Clouds of smoke fill the room from
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