The Kitchen 2011 - Articles Page 3

Opened: September 7, 2011
Closing: November 09, 2011

The Kitchen - 2011 - West End History , Info & More

National Theatre (Olivier)
(Waterloo) South Bank London

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.

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Full Casts & Complete Lineup Set for Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
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Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival has announced the complete principal casts, creative teams, and events planned for the previously announced summer season.

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by Stephi Wild - May 5, 2023


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by A.A. Cristi - Apr 10, 2023


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by Stephi Wild - Apr 7, 2023


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by Team BWW - Apr 3, 2023


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by Stephi Wild - Feb 8, 2023


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Chef Spotlight: Chef/Owner Adam Schop of STEAK FRITES BISTRO in Hell's Kitchen
by Marina Kennedy - Feb 1, 2023


Broadwayworld had the pleasure of interviewing Chef Adam about his career and Steak Frites Bistro for our 'Chef Spotlight.'

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by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 23, 2022


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by Stephi Wild - Sep 23, 2022


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by Stephi Wild - Jun 15, 2022


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by A.A. Cristi - Mar 17, 2022


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Photos: First Look at THE KITCHEN SINK at Queen's Theatre Hornchurch
by Stephi Wild - Mar 2, 2022


Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch release rehearsal images as the 10th anniversary production of Tom Wells award- winning, irresistibly funny and tender play, The Kitchen Sink prepares to open on 17 March.

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by Stephi Wild - Feb 9, 2022


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by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 8, 2021


The Kitchen has announced the appointment of Legacy Russell (she/they) as its next Executive Director & Chief Curator. Russell arrives from The Studio Museum in Harlem, where she led the organization’s renowned Artist-in-Residence program, helped to expand its scope of acquisitions, and organized numerous exhibitions.

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by Marina Kennedy - Aug 26, 2020


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by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 14, 2020


Burning Coal Theatre Company in partnership with The League of Women Voters of Wake County and thirteen other theatre and/or opera companies from across central North Carolina has announced that it will present The 19th Amendment Project.

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