The Kitchen
by Arnold Wesker
Synopsis
A play about people and their relationship to work.
It is early morning in the empty kitchen of a large restaurant.
A night porter wakes and lights the ovens.
One by one the chefs enter and slowly they work to prepare lunch.
The waitresses drift through, lay-up, prepare to serve.
Cameo stories emerge.
Personalities clash.
Momentum mounts.
Service begins.
Cresendo of movement.
Interlude: in which some of the chefs talk about their dreams, merging into the evening preparations less hectic, but leading to the violent denouement as one of the chefs goes beserk.
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Publication
The Kitchen is a play written by Arnold Wesker and published by Samuel French.
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