Actor Danny Webb on Wesker hit revival
in 1950s Drama, Actors and Performers, Playwrights
27th June 2011
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INTERVIEW: DANNY WEBB
The actor discusses Dominic Cooke’s well-received revival of Arnold Wesker’s seminal 1958 play, Chicken Soup with Barley (the first part of the Wesker Trilogy about a politically motivated East End Jewish family across 30 years of history), with Carole Woddis. Recorded at the Royal Court, 27 June 2011.
One young person said she regrets that we don’t have that type of idealism any more — we live in a much more cynical age. And, at that time, it was Stalin who destroyed the hope of an alternative.
