The Kitchen
by Arnold Wesker

The Kitchen

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

Publisher Samuel French

The Kitchen is a play written by Arnold Wesker and published by Samuel French .

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