PREAMBLE:

Author: Arnold Wesker (1932-). Britain dramatist who was born in London.

Title: `The Kitchen´.

Subtitle: A play in two parts with an interlude.

Publishing:-

Year of publication: This play was wrote in 1957.

Place of publication: London.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:

Cooks are the main characters in this play:

Peter (Boiled Fish), he is the main character who is in love with Monique, Frank (Second Chef, poultry), Alfredo (Roast), Hans (Fry), Kevin ( Fried Fish), Gaston

( Grill), Michael (Eggs), Bertha (Vegetable Cook), Mangolis ( Kitchen Porter), Anne (Dessert and Coffee), Max ( Butcher), Nicholas (Cold Buffet), Raymond and Paul

( Pastrycooks), Chef, Mr.Marango (Propiator).

Also, other characters appear:

Magi (Nigh Porter), Monique- the other main character who is married but she is Peter´s lover-, Molly, Jackie, Winnie, Hattie, Violet, Betty, Gwen, Daphne, Cynthia (waitresses), Dimitri(Kitchen Porter), Head Waiter, Tramp.

PLOT: In part one, in a kitchen of a restaurant a lot of cooks, waitresses, and kitchen porters begin the day preparing to serve lunch. In the interlude, kitchen porters and cooks linger after serving lunch talking about their dreams of a better life. In part two, everyone returns for the slower evening service. The central story is about a frustrated love between Peter, a young German cook, and Monique, a married English waitress.

SCENERY:

The kitchen of a large restaurant.

TIME:

Now, that is, the present (fifties).

CRITIC:

He was born in a Jewish family, that´ s why, he creates some Jew characters.

He was pastrycook. This job helped him to create his first play `The Kitchen´, which is naturalist.

PERSONAL OPINION:

In my opinion, this is a good story, because it has a lot of characters, that ´s why, I think, perhaps, it is more entertaining, because there are more dialogues and they are more various.

I like very much the relationships the author describes, because the characters are of different countries and cultures. It is interesting, for example, the relationship between a Jew and a German. Also, is interesting the love or coldness relationship between the main characters, Peter and Monique.

Finally, I would like to mention not only good relations appear in this play, because there are discussions like everywhere.

Ana Calatayud Moreno- Teatro Inglés de los siglos XIX y XX.