Chips with Everything (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Arnold Wesker
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Drama
- Time of Work: The present
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Pip Thompson, Corporal Hill, Charles Wingate, Andrew McClure, Archie Cannibal, Wilfe Seaford, Whitey Richardson, Dodger Cohen, Dickey Smith, Smiler Washington, Wing commander, The squadron leader, The pilot officer, P. T. instructor flight sergeant
- Genres: Social realism, Drama
- Subjects: 1960’s, Class conflict, Class consciousness, England or English people, Military life or service, Soldiers
- Locales: England
This play was Arnold Wesker’s first popular work, although his previous plays had enjoyed considerable artistic success. Like all of his plays, CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING delineates an aspect of contemporary society, not stopping at pointing out faults, but going on to point toward solutions. Wesker’s drama is, in fact, an extension of a general concern with social causes, and his identification with those causes is as strong on the stage as it is off.
Wesker also continues his interest in the psychology of the individual character in CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING. At first...
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