NT Live filming: The Kitchen 6 October 2011
by Arnold Wesker
This performance will be broadcast live. There will be several cameras in the auditorium and views of the stage may be blocked at any time during the performance. Please note:
* This is a studio performance.
* The light and sound will be adjusted for broadcast.
* There will be 360degree filming – resulting in audience members being filmed.
* No latecomers will be admitted.
Details of the cinema screenings are available on theNational Theatre Live website.
4 STARS Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Independent, Independent on Sunday, The Times, Time Out
'A superb revival.' Independent
‘Fabulous, fast-moving direction... With wit and energy it keeps you gasping.' The Times
'Superbly inventive... The acting ensemble is outstanding.' Daily Telegraph
'Beautifully choreographed, a balletic feast for the eyes.' Sunday Telegraph
'Eye-popping... Extraordinary production.' Metro
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.
Fifteen hundred customers an' half of them eating fish. I had to start work on a Friday.
Thrown together by their work, chefs, waitresses and porters from across Europe – English, Irish, German, Jewish – 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.
We all said we wouldn’t last the day, but tell me - what is there a man can’t get used to?
Arnold Wesker’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.
Audio-Described performances Fri 7 October at 7.30pm , Sat 8 October at 2pm (Touch Tour at 12.30pm)
Captioned performance Sun 6 November at 2.30pm
Please note: The 2pm performance of The Kitchen on 6 October will no longer be going ahead.
photo (Tom Brooke and Rory Keenan) by Marc Brenner
NT Live filming: The Kitchen 6 October 2011 finished on: 6 October 2011
