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New Left Review I/1, January-February 1960
Arnold Wesker
The Kitchen
Notes For The Producer
the lengnthy explanations I am forced to make may be annoying; I am sorry, but they are necessary.
This is a play about a large kitchen in a restaurant called the Tivoli. All kitchens, especially during service, go insane. There is the rush, there are the petty quarrels, grumbles, false prides and snobbery. Kitchen staff instinctively hate dining-room staff and all of them hate the customer. He is the personal enemy. The world might have been a stage for Shakespeare but to me it is a kitchen; where people come and go and cannot stay long enough to understand each other, and friendships, loves and enmities are forgotten as quickly as they are made.
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