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Arnold Wesker's perennially popular play The Kitchen will be revived at the National Theatre in October 2011. Set in the basement kitchen of a large restaurant, thirty chefs, waitresses, and kitchen porters, slowly begin the day preparing to serve lunch. The central story tells of a frustrated love affair between a high-spirited, young, German chef, Peter, and a married English waitress, Monique.
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Flashing, illuminating, moving, funny, passionate, authentic... --Bernard Levin - Daily Express
...achieves something that few playwrights have ever attempted; it dramatizes work...rising at the end of the first half to a climactic lunch-hour frenzy that is the fullest theatrical expression I have ever seen of the laws of supply and demand. --Kenneth Tynan - The Observer
...achieves something that few playwrights have ever attempted; it dramatizes work...rising at the end of the first half to a climactic lunch-hour frenzy that is the fullest theatrical expression I have ever seen of the laws of supply and demand. --Kenneth Tynan - The Observer
... a masterpiece of construction. This National revival confirms its exhilarating theatrical cosmopolitanism as well as its historical poignancy and significance. - 4* --The Independent
[Wesker] is a dramatist of heart and humanity... a drama of daring ambition and technical invention [The production] grips throughout. 4* Stars --The Telegraph
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...achieves something that few playwrights have ever attempted; it dramatizes work...rising at the end of the first half to a climactic lunch-hour frenzy that is the fullest theatrical expression I have ever seen of the laws of supply and demand. --Kenneth Tynan - The Observer
...achieves something that few playwrights have ever attempted; it dramatizes work...rising at the end of the first half to a climactic lunch-hour frenzy that is the fullest theatrical expression I have ever seen of the laws of supply and demand. --Kenneth Tynan - The Observer
... a masterpiece of construction. This National revival confirms its exhilarating theatrical cosmopolitanism as well as its historical poignancy and significance. - 4* --The Independent
[Wesker] is a dramatist of heart and humanity... a drama of daring ambition and technical invention [The production] grips throughout. 4* Stars --The Telegraph
Sir Arnold Wesker is one of Britain's most prolific and well-known playwrights. Knighted in 2006 for services to drama, he is the author of 42 plays and volumes of short stories, essays, poetry and journalism. His work has been translated into 18 languages, and his played are performed worldwide.
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- PublisherOberon Modern Plays
- Publication date2011
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