... The Witch's Kitchen Hackney Empire/Touring This muddled adaptation of Goethe's Faust for children aged seven plus is enough to send anyone of any age straight back to the Brothers Grimm for comfort. Faust (John Kindersley) is a young owl who lives with ...

... Tamasha's new play--written by Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan--cooks up a multi-cultural version of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen, as much a celebration of Britain's new national dish (cnicKen tiKKa masaia) as it is a drama about families. Under threat ...

... Kielty's increasingly selfish Prince and Gary Collins' mysterious and self-assured Callum. whom she has left behind in the kitchen. Unsurprisingly, not all is as it seems on the surface. Nor is it so for Julie Austin and Eilidh Fraser's Claudine and Claud- ...

... little's screeches at the prospect of having a bath. The clenched terror in which she scuttles round her surgically clean kitchen in the first act translates to a dotty cheerfulness in the second and a reckless, almost eerie assur ance in the third. Pirongs' ...

... Cooking up the wider view Old Vic Dolly West's Kitchen Unlike some Irish playwrights. Frank McGuinness is interested in the wider aspects of being Irish. In this play, he examines a period of time not often referred to by many of his countrymen, the Second ...

... mountain cottage setting of Martin McDonagh's acclaimed first play, staged at the Theatre Royal. Instead, the mood is that of a kitchen sink drama, providing an evocative atmosphere for this co-revival with Druid Theatre Company. Mag Folan and her daughter Maureen ...

... closing on the suc cess of its youngsters, the show jumps to life again when Grace Kennedy loses her apron, comes out of the kitchen and, in a gorgeous silver sequined gown, shows superb control in singing Freedom, Proud Mary and an unaccompanied Stand By ...

... Laxness. In the tiny, unheated Thrumpton Village Hall, the set takes up half the space, the light ing desk is operated from the kitchen and the audience are squeezed in. But this brooding tale of an Icelandic sheep-farmer eking out an existence on his remote ...

... Butterflies. Director Kate Mariow peels back the layers of this woman who wants to discover what life is like outside the kitchen. There are two fantasy sequences with Lena and Aaron, a landscape gardener played by Neil Sheffield. This is passion in slow ...

... Chazen, vie with colourful Mari for attention. Even the set is a show-off, with its muddle and dodgy wiring. The horror of its kitchen makes it almost a work of art. As Billy, Ferdy Roberts brings common sense and sincerity to the role of the phone engineer ...

... Annelie Brinkhof and the chorus of local children is used to great effect. With Es Devlin's dark circular set suggesting kitchen, forest and gingerbread cottage with minimalist skill and some free-floating cupboards that transform into antique cake adverts ...

... O'Connor. Director Patrick Mason returns it to its first home, the Abbey, for a new run. Set in the home, more specifically the kitchen, of the Mundy sisters of Donegal in the summer of 1936, it is a time seen through the memory of the then seven-year-old Michael ...