Arnold Wesker

La Cocina (2024)

In the sweltering back kitchen of a Times Square restaurant, undocumented cook Pedro is caught between mounting pressures at work and a complicated romance with waitress Julia. When money goes missing, suspicion spreads, igniting tensions that threaten to ...

National Theatre Live: The Kitchen (2011)

The Kitchen, Arnold Wesker's "extraordinary black comedy," is directed by Bijan Sheibani and features an ensemble cast of 29 actors. The production is set in a restaurant in 1950s London. ...

Denial (2004)

The popular Arnold Wesker play filmed at the Bristol Old Vic. ...

Bouřlivé jaro (2003)

The dramatic story of famous theater star Gertrude Matthews at Prague's Ungelt Theater. ...

Roots (1992)

Presentation of Arnold Wesker's play of the 1950s. A young girl returns to her family home in Norfolk, having been educated in cultural and political matters by her boyfriend Ronnie. Through trying to pass on what she has learned, she discovers her own voi ...

The Kitchen (1977)

Alvin Rakoff's adaptation of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen for Play of the Week. The Kitchen, first preformed in 1957, was Wesker's first work and his most performed play. The Kitchen has been produced in sixty cities including Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Paris - ...

The Kitchen (1976)

The play follows the staff in a cafe's kitchen during the course of a busy morning. ...

Love Letters on Blue Paper (1976)

Why has Sonia taken to writing letters to her husband, posted to him in the letter-box just outside their house – love letters, on blue paper, recalling with increasing vividness the early days of their courtship and marriage? ...

Brodo di pollo con l'orzo (1969)

London, family Kahn, Unghery ...

Rötter (1968)

"Roots" - About Beatie Bryant as she makes the transition from being an uneducated working-class woman obsessed with Ronnie, her unseen liberal boyfriend, to a woman who can express herself and the struggles of her time. ...

Hönssoppa med korngryn (1968)

The first play in a trilogy by Arnold Wesker. The Hungarian-Jewish immigrant Sarah Kahn firmly holds her family in London's East End. She is also the center of power for the socialist engagement of the family, which is being tested by the events of Eastern ...

Kořeny (1962)

The Kitchen (1961)

In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microcosm of the world, the kitchen looms around and encloses its workers; they include Peter, the German cook, who is in love with waitress Monica, and constantly ...

My Dad Was a Communist (2008)

Comedian Alexei Sayle, playwright Arnold Wesker and writer David Aaronovitch recall fascinating episodes from their communist childhood. ...

Right to Work March (1972)

They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London. ...