<P> Chicken Soup with Barley is a 1956 play by British playwright Arnold Wesker . It is the first of a trilogy and was first performed on stage in 1958 at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, where Wesker's two other plays of that trilogy--Roots and I'm Talking About Jerusalem--also premiered . The play is split into three acts, each with two scenes . </P> <P> The play is about the Jewish Kahn family living in 1936 in London, and traces the downfall of their ideals in a changing world, parallel to the disintegration of the family, until 1956 . The protagonists are the parents, Sarah and Harry, and their children, Ada, and Ronnie . They are Jewish Communists, and Wesker explores how they struggle to maintain their convictions in the face of World War II, Stalinism, or the 1956 Hungarian Revolution . Sarah is an adamant Socialist; she is strong, family - minded, honest though bossy; Harry, her husband, is weak, a liar, not at all manly and lacks conviction; Ada is extremely passionate about what she believes in, especially Marxism, and, like the others, is also romantic both personally and politically; and finally Ronnie is a youthful idealist and just as romantic as Ada . </P>

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