Event

The Kitchen

Flashing, illuminating, moving, funny, passionate, authentic' - Daily Express

The Kitchen

Friday, October 14 at 7:30pm
$20 Members $25 Public

1950s London. In the kitchen of an enormous West End restaurant, the
orders are piling up: a post-war feast of soup, fish, cutlets, omelettes
and fruit flans.Thrown together by their work, chefs, waitresses and
porters from across Europe English, Irish, German, Jewish argue and
flirt as they race to keep up. Peter, a high-spirited young cook, seems to thrive on the pressure. In between preparing dishes, he
manages to strike up an affair with married waitress Monique, the whole time dreaming of a better life. But in the all-consuming
clamour of the kitchen, nothing is far from the brink of collapse. Arnold Wesker's extraordinary play premiered at the Royal Court in
1959 and has since been performed in over 30 countries. The Kitchen puts the workplace centre stage in a blackly funny and furious
examination of life lived at breakneck speed, when work threatens to define who we are. Approximately 110 mins.