Chicken Soup with Barley

ISBN: 9781408156605 出版年：2011 页码：95 Arnold Wesker Bloomsbury Publishing

The kettle boils fascists are marching. Tea is brewed in 1946, with disillusion in the air at the end of tyears on, in 1956, as rumours spread of Hungarian revolution, the cup is empty.Sarah Khan, an East End Jewish mothepolitical 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 Socaptures 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.