Chips With Everything/The Friends/The Old Ones/Love Letters on Blue Paper [antikvár]

PENGUIN PLAYS CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING THE FRIENDS THE OLD ONES LOVE LETTERS ON BLUE PAPER Arnold Wesker was born ín Stepney in 1932 and educated at Upton House School in Hackney. From 1948 to 1958 he pursued many trades from furniture maker to pastry cook. His career as a playwright began when Lindsay Anderson, who had read The Kitchen and Chicken Soup with Barley, brought Wesker to the attention of George Devine at the Royal Court Theatre; Devine sent Chicken Soup with Barley to the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, where it was first produced in 1958, under the direction of John Dexter. A year later, having been turnéd down by the Royal Court, Roots was directed by Dexter, again at the Belgrade, Coventry, and in the following months he directed The Kitchen at the Court for two Sunday Night experimentál performances 'without decor'. The Wesker Trilogy created an enormous impact when produced in its entirety at the Royal Court in 1960 and again at the Shaw Theatre in 1978. His other plays include Their Very Own and Golden City (1965; winner of the Italian Premio Matzotto Drama Award in 1964); The Four Seasons(ig6s), The Wedding Feast (1974), TheJournalists (1975) and The Merchant (1975). In addition to plays, Arnold Wesker has written poems, short stories and numerous articles. Among these are Fears of Fragmentation (1970; articles and lectures); Six Sundays in Januarytigyi), including two stories, a diary, the librettó for a documentary, The Nottingham Captain, and a TV play, Menace; Love Letters on Blue Paper (1974), a collection of short stories (the title story of which he adapted for his play of the same name); and Say Goodbye! You May Never See Them Again (1974), a text for a book of primitive paintings by John Aliin. His most recent publications are Words - as Definitions of Experience (1977), an essay on education; Joumey into Journalism 1977), a personal account of a brief stay in the Sunday Times; Said the Old Mm to the Young Man (1978), a new collection of stories; and Fatlips (1978), a book for children. Arnold Wesker was artistic director of Centre 42, a cultural movement for popularizing the arts, primarily through trade unión support and participation, firom 1961 to 1970. He lives with his wife and three children in North London. In addition to this volume, Penguin has published The Wesker Trilogy (Volume 1); The Kitchen, The Four Seasons and Their Very Own amd Golden City (Volume 2); The Journalists, The Wedding Feast and The Merchant (Volume 4) and a collection of short stories, Love Letters on Blue Paper and Other Stories.