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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 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 with Barley 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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Chicken Soup with Barley
• Author: Arnold Wesker
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9781408156605
• ISBN: 1408156601
• ID: 01252492
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 86 g
• Dimensions: 135 × 199 × 6 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. June 2011

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