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The Kitchen

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  12w, 18m

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    12w, 18m

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Summary
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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Authors

Arnold Wesker

Arnold Wesker, considered one of the key figures in 20th Century drama, is the author of 44 plays, 4 volumes of short stories, 2 volumes of essays, an autobiography, a book on journalism, a children's book, extensive journalism, poetry and other assorted writings. He was born ...

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