Chicken Soup with Barley focuses on the Kahn family, a Jewish working-class family from the East End of London who start out as communists.
The play chronicles the different stages by which the Kahn family and their friends shift their political and personal allegiances. Sarah, the mother, adores the community of communism. But there is more to her: she is the long-suffering wife and adoring mother, who hates her sister-in-law.
The play chronicles the different stages by which the Kahn family and their friends shift their political and personal allegiances. Sarah, the mother, adores the community of communism. But there is more to her: she is the long-suffering wife and adoring mother, who hates her sister-in-law.