Wesker's Domestic Plays

By Arnold Wesker

In The Friends (1970), Esther is diagnosed with leukaemia, causing her friends to reassess their working-class identity, their imagined achievements as well as their own mortality. Bluey (1993) is a play about repressed memory resurfacing and three imagined futures that the protagonist cannot muster the courage to confront. In Men Die Women Survive (1990) a trio of estranged wives gather around the dinner table. As they conduct a post-mortem on their failed relationships a tale of betrayal and revenge emerges. Telling the story of a 44-year-old actress Gertie and her influence on Sam, a black teenager working as a car-park attendant, Wild Spring (1992) explores acting as a metaphor for the false images of ourselves with which we fall in love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849431604
• ISBN13: 9781849431606
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 8.2"