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.lsquo;Fifteen hundred customers anrsquo; half of them eating fish. I had to start work on a Friday.rsquo;Thrown together by their work; chefs; waitresses and porters from across Europe ndash; English; Irish; German; Jewish ndash; 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.lsquo;We all said we wouldnrsquo;t last the day; but tell me ndash; what is there a man canrsquo;t get used to?rsquo;Arnold Weskerrsquo;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.
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