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The Kitchen
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Arnold Wesker's perennially popular play The Kitchen will be revived at the National Theatre in October 2011.Set in the basement kitchen of a large restaurant, thirty chefs, waitresses, and kitchen porters, slowly begin the day preparing to serve lunch. The central story tells of a frustrated love affair between a high-spirited, young, German chef, Peter, and a married English waitress, Monique.
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Part One
There is no curtain. The kitchen is always there. In semi-darkness.
The night porter, MAGI, enters, stretches, looks at his watch, registers with distaste where he is. It is seven in the morning.
He ālightsā a taper, āfiresā the first of the seven ovens. Each oven explodes into a burn. With each burn comes more light.
Light and sound accumulate. The kitchenās hum builds to a small roar ā a battle with dialogue to the end.1
MAGI lights the fourth oven ā MAX enters.
MAGI: Morning, Max.
MAX grunts, goes directly to the cold-cupboard,
collects a bottle of beer, opens and drinks.
MAGI lights the last oven ā BERTHA enters.
BERTHA: Good morning, Magi.
MAGI: Morning, Bertha.
BERTHA: Good morning, Max.
MAX belches.
Enter HETTIE and VIOLET from street, en route to changing room.
HETTIE: What bloody agency found you this job?
VIOLET: A very respectable agency, I thought.
HETTIE: Well you thought
wrong, didnāt you!
wrong, didnāt you!
BERTHA needs help with a full pot.
BERTHA: Hey, Magi, give us a hand with this.
MAGI: OK, love.
BETTY and WINNIE enter en route to changing room, pausing to glance at the dayās menu chalked on a board.
BETTY: I canāt help it, weather affects me.
WINNIE: I never let anything affect meā¦
BETTY: Everything affects meā¦
WINNIE: Lifeās too short.
BETTY: ā¦music affects me, neighbours affect meā¦
WINNIE: Problem is, I donāt get very angry with anything.
BETTY: ā¦this bloody kitchen affects me with its bloody boring menu.
WINNIE: But I donāt get very happy at anything either, know what I mean?
Theyāve gone.
During next moments MANGOLIS comes on and off depositing dustbins in various positions.
MAGI: Bertha ā
BERTHA: Yes?
MAGI: Iāve got a confession ā
BERTHA: So early?
MAGI: ā that ten shillingsā¦
BERTHA: You havenāt got it? So you havenāt got it! You emigrating?
MAGI: No.
BERTHA: Then Iāll wait.
MAGI: Youāre a good girl, Bertha.
BERTHA: Good ā I am, but a girl?
MAGI: Go on, I could fancy you.
BERTHA: Fancy? Boy, Iād crack you in a crunch. Crrrrrunch!
MAGI: Bertha, you worry me.
BERTHA: I worry him.
PAUL and RAYMOND from the changing room make for their corner, tools in hand.
PAUL: (To the world.) Good morning, good morning. (To BERTHA.) Morning, me old darling.
BERTHA: Morning.
PAUL: (To MAX.) And to you, Max.
MAX: (Soul not yet returned.) Morninā.
RAYMOND: Max, itās escallop of veal on today?
MAX: How many?
RAYMOND: Three. Iāll take them now and put them in my box, before the others get here.
GASTON followed by DIMITRI enter en route for changing room.
RAYMOND, noticing GASTONās black eye, whistles.
GASTON glares.
DIMITRI gestures RAYMOND to desist.
MAX: (Handing RAYMOND the escallops.) And donāt forget my puff pastry tomorrow.
RAYMOND: Usual?
MAX: A little extra. My wifeās family is coming for Sunday lunch. Magi, give us a hand.
MAGI helps MAX carry tray of beef to ALFREDOās station.
KEVIN enters, lost.
New cook?
KEVIN New cook.
MAX: Changing roomās there.
KEVIN moves to changing rooms.
PAUL: (To RAYMOND.) Donāt forget itās Religieuse today.
RAYMOND: (Saluting.) Aye, aye, Commandant! But please let me make them? All week Iāve been making fruit bands, fruit bands! All week.
PAUL: Alright, alright ā Christ! youāre a nag.
HETTIE and VIOLET en route to the dining room.
VIOLET is new, and aghast at what sheās walking through.
HETTIE: Follow me to the dining-room.
VIOLET: Iām not used ...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Characters
- Part One
- Interlude
- Part Two