The Observer's theatre critic remembers one of Britain's most influential playwrights of the postwar yearsArnold Wesker, who died on 12 April at the age of 83, was one of the male playwrights who remade British theatre in the 1950s and 60s. A contemporary of Harold Pinter and John Osborne, he helped to haul the stage away from the drawing room. He populated it with urgent, articulate, working-class voices.Wesker's pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:14AM on April 17, 2016