Miriam Karlin in Chicken Soup with Barley by ARNOLD WESKER
The Trilogy opens on October 4, 1936, with a picture of the East End awaiting one of Mosley's Fascist marches. We meet Sarah Kahn ; her shiftless husband, Harry; their two children, Ada and Ronnie; Harry's sister, Cissie (a trade union organiser); and Dave Simmonds , who will later marry Ada; and follow them through twenty years of doubt, difficulty, and disillusion, at the end of which the indomitable Sarah can still cry, ' We got through, didn't we? We got scars but we got through. You hear me, Ronnie? You've got to care, you've got to care or you'll die! ' *
Other parts played by Adrienne Poster and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX