{"product_id":"9781849437578","title":"The Kitchen","description":"\u003cp\u003e1950s 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Fifteen hundred customers an’ half of them eating fish. I had to start work on a Friday.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrown 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘We all said we wouldn’t last the day, but tell me – what is there a man can’t get used to?’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArnold Wesker’s extraordinary play premiered at the Royal Court in 1959 and has since been performed in over 30 countries. \u003ci\u003eThe Kitchen\u003c\/i\u003e puts the workplace centre stage in a blackly funny and furious examination of life lived at breakneck speed, when work threatens to define who we are.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oberon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158005465328,"sku":"9781849437578","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781849437578_p0.jpg?v=1763752297","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781849437578","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}