Revivals from Arnold Wesker’s heyday prove the enduring quality of his work,where autobiographical detail went hand in hand with experimental stagecraftCelebrated playwrights often seem to spend their later years in a kind of exile that is less common for successful novelists. Perhaps because putting on a play is more complicated than putting out a book – a script needs a producer, director, and actors,stage and audience award-winning dramatists can find themselves locked out of theatres that once royally courted them.
Arnold Wesker endured a long English wilderness of the kind also experienced by peers such as John Osborne, Peter Nichols, and David Storey and Edward Bond. unusual plays went unperformed in his own country,though they were often produced elsewhere, while recognition from British theatre was restricted to a long service knighthood and revivals of his heyday plays.
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Source: theguardian.com