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  • Roots
    Arnold Wesker
    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.Rootsis the remarkable centrepiece of Wesker’s seminal post-war trilogy. It was first p...
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  • Wesker’s Historical Plays
    Arnold Wesker
    Presented here are four epic history plays from Sir Arnold Wesker, which touch on the age-old conflicts caused by religion, science and the Establishment.Set in the Jewish ghetto of Venice, 1563, Shylock (1972) is based on the same three stories from which Shakespeare wove his play, The Merchant of Venice. The core plot remains, but the relationships and characterisations are v...
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  • Wesker’s Domestic Plays
    Arnold Wesker
    In The Friends (1970), Esther is diagnosed with leukaemia, causing her friends to reassess their working-class identity, their imagined achievements as well as their own mortality. Bluey (1993) is a play about repressed memory resurfacing and three imagined futures that the protagonist cannot muster the courage to confront. In Men Die Women Survive (1990) a trio of estranged wi...
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  • Kitchen
    Arnold Wesker
    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. ...
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  • Joy and Tyranny
    Arnold Wesker
    ’My preoccupation,’ says Arnold Wesker in his interview/portrait Ambivalences (published by Oberon Books) ’with-violence-stemming from-perceived-intimidation-by-the-bright-ones who dare to be cleve ror simply different, began with an incident at school. While queuing for a school meal, one of the other boys wanted me to try his liquorice stick .I didn’t want to. This other pupi...
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  • Groupie
    Arnold Wesker
    Mattie Beancourt, a 61- year-old woman, reads the autobiography of Mark Gorman, a famous painter. Having grown up in the same East End streets she writes to him. A correspondence develops.She visits him unannounced, and discovers he lives in near poverty and neglect. Her personality is sunny, his is curmudgeonly. Their impact upon each other is startling....I was an appendage f...
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    18,56 €

  • Ambivalences
    Arnold Wesker / Chiara Montenero
    Ambivalences: A Portrait of Arnold Wesker from A to W is a document of Arnold Wesker in conversation with the Italian academic Chiara Montenero. In their wide-ranging discussions, Wesker and Montenero address his ideas on art and drama with a particular focus on some of his most enduring characters. Betraying his reputation as theatre’s ’perennial outsider’, Ambivalences finds ...
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    29,50 €

  • Chicken Soup with Barley
    Arnold Wesker
    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 rumours 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 tr...
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  • Political Plays
    Arnold Wesker
    Includes the plays Chips With Everything, Their Very Own and Golden City, The Journalists, Badenheim 1939 and, published here for the first time, Phoenix Phoenix, Burning Bright.Described variously as ’a dangerous playwright, ’a melancholy optimist’, and ’the unique outsider in the British Theatre’, Arnold Wesker is one of Britain’s most celebrated playwrights. This latest volu...
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    26,87 €

  • Arnold Wesker’s Monologues
    Arnold Wesker
    Arnold Wesker’s plays, written over a period of more than fifty years, offer actors, male and female, a remarkable source of monologues covering themes such as friendship, death, old age, political disillusion, failed love, and self-discovery fuelled by emotions ranging through anger, joy, hope, fear, outrage, love, bewilderment, guilt, and comic irony.This is Wesker’s own sele...
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    23,62 €

  • The Methuen Drama Book of Plays from the Sixties
    Arnold Wesker / Edward Bond / Joe Orton
    Five outstanding plays from the British theatre of the 1960s.This volume contains major works by five of the most important playwrights ot emerge during the late fifties and early sixties. Bold, challenging and iconoclastic, these plays are landmarks of post-war British theatre. Roots by Arnold Wesker focuses on the homecoming of young Beatie Bryant who returns to her family of...
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    31,40 €

  • Wesker’s Love Plays
    Arnold Wesker
    Includes the plays The Four Seasons, Love Letters on Blue Paper and Lady OthelloSpanning three decades of impassioned and inspiring work, the three plays in this volume show in cross-section Arnold Wesker’s development as one of the key figures of late-twentieth-century drama.Each play grapples with the timeless problems accompanying two people in love. The most intimate and pe...
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    27,85 €

  • Wesker Plays
    Arnold Wesker
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  • Wesker Plays
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  • Roots - A Play
    Arnold Wesker
    Beatie returns for a holiday to her fenland farm home trying to impose on her stolid family the ideas of a young Jewish intellectual, Ronnie, whom she believes will marry her. But, awaiting his arrival, slowly Beatie realizes he will never come and her famous final speech exults that Ronnie has taught her independence and how to free herself from him.-4 women, 5 men ...
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    18,54 €

  • Merchant
    Arnold Wesker
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