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Jonathan Tafler plays Harry Sendler
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Tracy Ann-Oberman plays the young Leah.
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MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS AND CHICKEN SOUP
By by Colin Shindler
Mon 12th - 17th August 2002
Synopsis
When the Sendlers arrive in Britain at the turn of the 20th century, they are illiterate and poverty stricken. Three generations later they are at the heart of mainstream British society. As she awaits the birth of her first child, Alison finds common ground with her grandmother, Leah, and discovers how this remarkable progress was achieved by the women of successive generations.
Using the frame of conversations between Alison and her grandmother Leah, Mothers, Daughters and Chicken Soup examines the progress of an immigrant community over a century through the experience of the women of a single family. When can a community consider itself fully "integrated", if ever? Should third or even fourth generation immigrants be looking to return to a "homeland"? What does looking back to previous generations tell us about our own? And how is the immigrant community viewed by the "host" community?
Leah - Miriam Karlin
Young Leah - Tracy Ann Oberman
Alison - Amy Shindler
Harry Sendler - Joanthan Tafler
Sarah - Deborah Berlin
Isaac - Daniel Arden
Judah - Ben Crowe
Thug - Ian Brooker
Directed by Peter Leslie Wild
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