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Sir Arnold Wesker RIP

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,290
in Not Sports Related
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36031849#?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,675
    (14) Chips With Everything

    Classic Kitchen Sink drama.

    RIP
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited April 2016
    Blimey, there's a name I've not heard or a while. RIP.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    another ex-con kicks the bucket

    RIP
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,206
    ricky_otto said:

    Blimey, there's a name I've not heard or a while. RIP.

    There's a name I've not heard, ever, until now. RIP
  • Addicktildeath
    Addicktildeath Posts: 30
    RIP
    He went to my old school-a Hackney boy just like me.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    A political writer in his young days, a man who knew poverty, and national service, who campaigned against Nuclear arms, and who was amongst a group of 'working class' writers of his era.
    Not my favourite playwrite, but one who wrote in a documentary style with thoughtful ideas expressed.
    'Chips with everything' was a text allowed in schools, that schoolteachers who arrived in the job from the National Service generation were keen for students to read.
    I think Wesker was a playwrite of his time, but not for all time like Shakespeare or Checkov. I also think that had he been born a little later he would have been a prolific writer for TV, especially in the 'play for today' slots on the BBC.
    RIP
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,675
    Sorry Seth but years of Charlton Life indoctrination means that I have to mention this to a teacher like you:

    *playwright*
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,398
    RIP
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,186
    RIP

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  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    I am blaming predictive Americanised text.

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