... continue to be stacked against black people in Britain yet this could be any family of any origin in what is a run of the mill kitchen-sink drama. Clearty a workshopped vignette stretched beyond its means, and with director Michael Buffong seemingly AWOL, Talawa ...

... ventional, useless household objects can produce such reso nant noises and vibrations. It features a comical scene with taps, kitchen sinks and newspapers. This is balanced with a noisy, dramatic instrumen tal section as performers are suspended in abseilers' ...

... 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 ...

... with heavy irony or fierce bravado. Degraded as a 'coloured', she was not allowed to record big numbers, had to eat in the kitchen, where her band joined her in solidarity, and had no access to 'whites only' toilets. It is a shocking personal and social ...

... travel and what to do with a duff bottle of wine. But their competitive chat is interrupted by gales of laughter from the kitchen, where hostess Stephanie and Tony's wife Maddy have aiscoverea max ineir nusDanas are undergoing psychotherapy. It provokes ...

... the eye and ear. But the main thrust is provided by a quartet of American tim- panists conducted by Tim Weiss in a hell's kitchen of red lights above the stage. Their prolonged, academic drumming seems a far c.n from the Alaskan wilrteme ...

... Willy Russell's perennially popular play, here staged at the Byre Theatre, is about as familiar as the layout of your own kitchen. Dowdy housewife stultified to distraction by mix of daily routine and mind-numbing husband has taken to sipping Riesling ...

... 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 ...

... comfortably on the stage of the Octagon within intimate reach of the audience seated on three sides. Richard Foxton's fitted-kitchen set is rather smarter than usual. He has also incorporated a small comer of a sandy Greek beach on to the other side of the ...

... a chain reaction of events unfolds, threatening the domestic bliss. It is a gentle drama with much humour and a genuine kitchen sink on the stage of the West Yorkshire Playhouse. And although at times it feels like a contemporary, nostalgic piece. Bill ...

... edy, as drunks are never easy to play convincingly. Katy Tuxford's excellent set allows simultaneous action in lounge and kitchen and director Sally Hughes' choice of incidental music, provided by George Formby, Elsie and Doris Waters and Gracie Reids ...

... time traveller, a modem girl and her mum. a Tudor merchant, the football hero, two goldminers and the time police in a 2000 kitchen. The writing, a speedy, witty affair full of local references, is by Ivan Cutting, who also directs, and musical numbers are ...