Playwright best known for his signature early works The Hamlet of Stepney Green and Enter Solly Gold Although once bracketed with Harold Pinter and Arnold Wesker, his fellow East End of London Jewish playwrights of the late 1950s, Bernard Kops, who has died aged 97, was a more fantastical, surreal writer than either. And while Pinter was always a political writer, Kops and Wesker, though committed socialists (and Kop…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PM on February 25, 2024