Who wrote the play Chips with Everything?
Chips with Everything heading the cast. Pip Thompson is "conscripted for National Service", but prefers to be treated as an ordinary airman and not become an officer. Pip is a socialist who has seen "squalor of London's East End, typified by greasy cafés offering ‘chips with everything’". Chips with Everything Chips with Everything is a 1962 play by Arnold Wesker. The play shows class attitudes at the time by examining the life of a corporal. "Chips with Everything" premiered in the West End at the Royal Court Theatre on 27 April 1962, and subsequently transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre. Directed by John Dexter,
Chips with Everything Dunn, Eddie Marsan, and James Hazeldine as Corporal Hill. The first television adaptation came in 1963, when scenes from the Royal Court Theatre production aired on BBCtv featuring Derek Fowlds, John Noakes, Ronald Lacey and Corin Redgrave. BBC television adapted the play for their daytime 'Schools and Colleges' programming in September 1969, dramatizing the play in six 35-minute episodes, having previously presented a radio adaptation starring Martin Jarvis in May 1968. In 1975, the play was presented on BBC1 as part of the "Play of the Month" strand, directed by Waris Hussein and produced by Cedric Messina, with David Daker