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Arnold Wesker

January 2024

  • Doon Mackichan, James Corden, Martin Savage and Lloyd Hutchinson in A Respectable Wedding at the Young Vic, London, in 2007.

    Front row at the wedding from hell: a toast to theatre’s marital ding-dongs

    Party punch-ups, brides in disguise, simmering family rancour … playwrights have cordially invited audiences to some nightmarish nuptials

May 2023

  • Roundhouse Works exterior

    London’s Roundhouse to train 15,000 young people in creative industries

    Venue raised £8m in donations to build facilities for music, performance and production

September 2022

  • A scene from Seven Jewish Children @ Royal Court (Opening 11-02-09). ©Tristram Kenton 02/09 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Antisemitism claims at the Royal Court theatre

    Letters: Caryl Churchill and Dominic Cooke defend the play Seven Jewish Children, and John Pelling recalls plays by Arnold Wesker and Bernard Kops

March 2019

  • Tracy Ann Oberman, right, with Omid Djalili in Fiddler on the Roof.

    'We've been ashamed of our voice': the secret history of UK Jewish theatre

    The US has a rich tradition of Jewish theatre – but in the UK it’s been more circumspect. Artists from Hofesh Shechter to Tracy Ann Oberman explain why

December 2017

  • Coventry’s old cathedral shell and new modern cathedral, with Jacob Epstein’s St Michael and the devil sculpture adorning the wall

    Recalling Coventry’s great cultural heyday

    Letters: John Green remembers growing up in Coventry after the war when world-famous artists and architects flocked to the city. And Ian Joyce wonders why a replica of Frank Whittle’s first jet aircraft adorns a Lutterworth traffic island

October 2016

  • Michael Billington

    Roots and forgotten fruits: Wesker tribute reminds us of his later plays

    Michael Billington
    The Royal Court hosted a moving celebration of Arnold Wesker. His early works such as Roots are well known – let’s rediscover the rest of his 44 plays

April 2016

  • Arnold Wesker had a gift for managing time.

    Peter Gill on Arnold Wesker: ‘John Dexter brought these new plays to life’

  • Jessica Raine as Beatie in Arnold Wesker’s Roots at the Donmar Warehouse in 2013

    Arnold Wesker’s influences and time in prison

  • Ros Asquith Lines cartoon

    Lines
    Drama in the canteen

  • Arnold Wesker with his daughter in an East End market, 1962.

    Appreciation: Arnold Wesker, 1932-2016

  • Letter: The surprisingly versatile Arnold Wesker

  • Arnold Wesker: An angry young man who upset the theatrical establishment

  • Arnold Wesker applied his life to his times – and showed us greatness

    David Edgar

  • From the Guardian archive
    Breakfast with Wesker – archive interview

  • Arnold Wesker: the radical bard of working Britain

    Michael Billington

  • Arnold Wesker: kitchen-sink dramatist – in pictures

  • Sir Arnold Wesker obituary

  • British playwright Arnold Wesker dies, aged 83

March 2016

  • A scene from Jerusalem @ Royal Court (Opening 15-07-09) Tristram Kenton 7/09 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The Royal Court at 60: look back in wonder

    London’s powerhouse of new writing is celebrating its 60th birthday. Explore some of the Sloane Square theatre’s key productions through extracts from the Guardian and Observer archive, alongside new recollections from Wole Soyinka, Ann Jellicoe, Amanda Redman, Sally Hawkins and others

September 2015

  • Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet, Joanna Lumley in The Cherry Orchard and Mark Rylance in Jerusalem

    From Oedipus to The History Boys: Michael Billington's 101 greatest plays

    In his new book, the Guardian’s theatre critic has selected what he thinks are the 101 greatest plays ever written, in any language – so do you agree?
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