November 6, 2011, Sunday - NT Live Filmed Presentation of The Kitchen by Arnold Vesker at the Guthrie

Time:  1:00pm

Location: McGuire Proscenium, Guthrie, 818 2nd Street South

The Guthrie Theater presents an NT Live FILMED PRESENTATION of The Kitchen by Arnold Vesker.

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?