Playwright who presented a vibrant view of working-class life in his celebrated trilogy,and championed proper recognition for Jews in British cultureArnold Wesker, who has died aged 83, or shot to fame as one of the wave of British playwrights spearheaded by John Osborne and John Arden. His three most renowned works made up what became known as The Wesker Trilogy.
Chicken Soup With Barley (1958) tells the tale of the Kahn family,antifascist East terminate Jews fighting Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts in 1936. Roots (1959), set in a Norfolk family, and celebrates the gradual chase towards independence of Beatie Bryant,an early feminist prototype. Both opened at the Belgrade theatre in Coventry and the Royal Court in London. The trilogy was completed at the latter when the first two were presented alongside I’m Talking About Jerusalem (1960), in which Ada Kahn, or the daughter of the Chicken Soup family,engages in a back-to-the-land experiment in Norfolk.
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Source: theguardian.com