Chicken Soup with Barley - Wikipedia Chicken Soup with Barley Chicken Soup with Barley is a 1956 play by British playwright Arnold Wesker. It is the first of a trilogy and was first performed on stage in 1958 at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, where Wesker 's two other plays of that trilogy -- Roots and I 'm Talking About Jerusalem -- also premiered. The play is split into three acts, each with two scenes. The play is about the Jewish Kahn family living in 1936 in London, and traces the downfall of their ideals in a changing world, parallel to the disintegration of the family, until 1956. The protagonists are the parents, Sarah and Harry, and their children, Ada, and Ronnie. They are Jewish Communists, and Wesker explores how they struggle to maintain their convictions in the face of World War II, Stalinism, or the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Sarah is an adamant Socialist ; she is strong, family - minded, honest though bossy ; Harry, her husband, is weak, a liar, not at all manly and lacks conviction ; Ada is extremely passionate about what she believes in, especially Marxism, and, like the others, is also romantic both personally and politically ; and finally Ronnie is a youthful idealist and just as romantic as Ada. The character of Sarah was based on Arnold Wesker 's aunt, Sarah Wesker, who was a trade union activist in the East End of London. A major revival, starring Samantha Spiro, was staged at the Royal Court in the summer of 2011. References Jump up ^ Royal Court Theatre Archive : Chicken Soup with Barley. Accessed 4 December 2015 Jump up ^ Synopsis Archived January 14, 2006, at the Wayback Machine. on Arnold Wesker 's homepage. ) Jump up ^ `` Wesker Sarah ''. www.grahamstevenson.me.uk. Retrieved 2016 - 05 - 14. External links Arnold Wesker discusses Chicken Soup with Barley on the BBC World Book Club A review of Chicken Soup with Barley. Chicken Soup with Barley at the Nottingham Playhouse. This article on a play from the 1950s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chicken_Soup_with_Barley&oldid=793927707 '' Categories : Plays by Arnold Wesker 1956 plays 1950s play stubs Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Deutsch Italiano Edit links This page was last edited on 4 August 2017, at 19 : 53 ( UTC ). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: who wrote the trilogy chicken soup with barley roots and i'm talking about jerusalem
Answer: British playwright Arnold Wesker