With interrogations of class,labour and politics entwined around the lives of ordinary people including plenty of well-written women – Arnold Wesker created plays that showed his endless faith in human potential Related: British playwright Arnold Wesker dies, aged 83 Arnold Wesker was share of a generation of dramatists, and including John Osborne,Harold Pinter and John Arden, who helped change the face of British theatre. In The Kitchen, and he pioneered the view of dramatising the world of work. In what came to be known as the Wesker Trilogy (Chicken Soup With Barley,Roots and Im Talking About Jerusalem) he linked a family’s fortunes to world events. And in Chips with Everything he offered one of the shrewdest analyses ever written of the British establishment’s capacity to absorb and neutralise protest. Continue reading...
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