... 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 ...

... Don Alfonso of Donald Maxwell, an ever-present jovial bachelor for all his cynicism. As his cc-conspirator Despina, Linda Kitchen provides a delightful succession of eccen tric characterisations, a sluttish chambermaid, a shimmeringly seductive fake healer ...

... 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 ...

... Strindberg's play is a far cry from the small stage and auditorium that the author envisaged. Tom Piper's setting is a vast kitchen, from the upper windows of which one can see an outside terrace, with a metal spiral staircase leading to the rooms of the ...

... behaviour and loads of incredulity. Dinah England's smartly dressed, comfortable country retreat is good to look at, although the kitchen door shows signs of insecurity. As bumbling Bernard, Paul Leonard uses his lugubrious face to good effect, especially when ...

... 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 ...

... and sinister underground car park. The villainy is also highly contemporary. Peachum runs the modem version of a thieves' kitchen, The Rower of Kent, and his major collaborator in crime is Lockit, here a detective inspector at Woolwich. Macheath, still ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... rp|p^innc\ manactor Peter Hepple Picture: Tristram Kenton Recipe for success--Donna Dent and Steven Pacey in Dolly West's Kitchen at the Old Vic. ...