Arnold Wesker Knihy

Knížka obsahuje pět povídek,které autor napsal v sedmdesátých letech: Muž, který nebude nikdy psát jako Balzac Řekl stařec mladíkovi Sazka Muž, který se začal bát Milostné dopisy na modrém papíru

Drama o třech jednáních. Prostřední díl dramatické trilogie mladého pokrokového anglického spisovatele. Odehrává se v myšlenkově zatuchlém prostředí anglického venkova, v rodině Bryantů. Hrdinka hry se po návratu z města snaží změnit myšlenkovou pohodlnost rodiny a uplatnit v ní nové,socialistické názory, které převzala od svého milého, hlasatele teorie "přesvědčovacího socialismu".

Say Goodbye, You May Never See Them Again Scenes from Two East-end Backgrounds

A collection of plays linked by their scrutiny of the Domestic, by one of post-war Britain's most important and abiding dramatists. Contains the plays The Friends, Bluey, Men Die, Women Survive, and Wild Spring.

Arnold Wesker's perennially popular play. The central story tells of a frustrated love affair between a high-spirited, young German chef, Peter, and a married English waitress, Monique.

Chicken Soup with Barley is an epic play that spans twenty years in the life of an East End Jewish family and the gradual crumbling of their socialist dream. It vividly captures the loss of political idealism and links the journey of a single family to the wider political situation.The kettle boils in 1936 as the fascists are marching. Tea is brewed in 1946, with disillusion in the air at the end of the war. Twenty years on, in 1956, as rumors spread of Hungarian revolution, the cup is empty.Sarah Khan, an East End Jewish mother, is a feisty political fighter and a staunch communist. Battling against the State and her shirking husband she desperately tries to keep her family together.This landmark state-of-the-nation play is a panoramic drama portraying the age-old battle between realism and idealism.  Chicken Soup captures the collapse of an ideology alongside the disintegration of a family. Chicken Soup with Barley, the first in a trilogy that includes Roots and I'm Talking about Jerusalem was first performed at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry in 1958 and transferred to the Royal Court in the same year.

This play has at its centre the female protagonist of Sarah Kahn - a generous provider of love and provisions in the home, and a passionate supporter of socialism. Working against her untrustworthy husband to keep her family together, this is the story of a Jewish woman's struggle in the face of political and personal disillusionment.

It's 1958. Beatie Bryant has been to London and fallen in love with Ronnie, a young socialist. As she anxiously awaits his arrival to meet her family at their Norfolk farm, her head is swimming with new ideas. Ideas of a bolder, freer world which promise to clash with their rural way of life. Roots is the remarkable centrepiece of Wesker's seminal post-war trilogy.