Orcas Center live theatre streaming continues with ‘The Kitchen’
Published 3:50 pm Thursday, September 22, 2011
Arnold Wesker’s play “The Kitchen” premiered at the Royal Court in 1959 and has since been performed in more than 30 countries.
The production puts the workplace center stage in a blackly funny and furious examination of life lived at breakneck speed, when work threatens to define who we are.
“The Kitchen” will stream at Orcas Center as part of National Theatre Live’s program on Thursday, Oct. 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Directed by Bijan Sheiban, the play features an ensemble of 30 people and is set in a kitchen, using real food and with actors actually cooking and preparing food on stage – it is a tour de force spectacle.
It’s 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. Thrown together by their work, chefs, waitresses and porters from across Europe 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.
Tickets are $15 and $11 for students ($2 off for Orcas Center members) and may be purchased at www.orcascenter.org or by calling 376-2281 ext 1 or visiting the Orcas Center box office during box office hours.
