This Happy Breed " review
Theatre Royal, BathWatching this rare revival of Noël Coward's lower-middle-class comedy, I was unexpectedly reminded of Arnold Wesker's Chicken Soup With Barley. Coward's play traces the fortunes of a family of Clapham conservatives from 1919 to 1939, while Wesker explores the lives of a group of Jewish socialists from 1936 to 1956. But, while the two plays have much in common, Wesker's is the more considera…