Published: November 2, 1961 A POLYGLOT drama rich with the impatient opinions of militant youth striking out against a world in turmoil is presented in forceful but unresolved, style in 'The Kitchen,' which was opened for inspection yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street Playhouse and the Fifth Avenue Cinema. The work of the 29-year-old British playwright, Arnold Wesker, represented on Broadway last spring by his fine drama, 'Roots,' the film vividly illustrates the rebellious, nonconformist approach of John Osborne's 'angry young man' school of letters, a school Mr. Download Bully Scholarship Edition For Pcsx2 Configuration. Wesker has publicly admired.

But while the anger, the talent and the humor are all too evident here, a viewer is not too certain just what solutions the author has in mind. Wesker's 'Kitchen' is, in effect, a United Nations roster of English, French, Italian, Cypriote, etc., chefs, cooks, dishwashers, bakers, and handymen. They are, as is the case in more exalted circles, men and women at odds and sometimes in harmony with themselves and the world of the kitchen and their private lives. The German cook, for example, is in love with a married waitress who does not love him enough to divorce her husband or bear the child he desperately wants. A Cypriote cook is constantly ready to trade punches with our ebullient but harried.

The head chef is determinedly indifferent to the hectic crew under his eye. The owner lives only for the restaurant that is his whole world, a domain he feels is constantly being sabotaged by his scurrying workers. The organized madness of the kitchen under the pressure of dozens of orders placed by frenetic waitresses is broken by the sudden stillness after a mealtime. It is then that Mr. Wesker, in the persons of his varied characters, speaks out against the seemingly useless frenzies involved in everyday living. What, asks the German, are the dreams of his co-workers? They turn out to be money, women, other jobs and, among others, the hatred of a Jewish cook of a neighbor because of his deep-rooted selfishness.

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Wesker ends his drama on a climactic crescendo of shouts, curses, fights and broken glass as our German cook goes berserk because of his girl friend's inconstancy, the damage nearly wrecks the desperate owner. 'You stopped my whole world,' he whimpers. 'It's a right world. What's wrong?

Maybe it's something I should know? Introduction To The Study Of The Ten Sefirot Pdf To Excel. ' The point is Mr. Wesker has stressed the pressures, the inadequacies and the emptiness with clarity, humor and decisiveness. But he has not offered much more in the way of an answer than an indication that perhaps the world will be better when the meek, or the proletariat, if you will, will inherit it.

At any rate, he never says so. In the direction of James Hill, who heretofore has made only short subjects, including the Academy Award-winning 'Giuseppina,' Mr. Wesker and company have a true professional. Under his stewardship, 'The Kitchen' is a brisk, authentic scene full of noise, confusion and efficiency. Carl Mohner as the German, Mary Yeomans as the apple of his eye, Tom Bell as the introspective Jew, Brian Phelan as an Irish cook, Gertan Klauber, Sean Lynch, Martin Boddey, Charles Lloyd Pack and Frank Atkinson, as various cooks and helpers, and Eric Pohlmann as the worried, suspicious owner, leaves an impression of real people caught up in work, passion and defeat. As a former kitchen worker himself, Mr.

Wesker has captured the milieu and its analogy to the world at large even if he has not come up with hope or a format for a better world. He is a talent to watch. The Cast THE KITCHEN; screen play and production by Sidney Cole; from the play by Arnold Wesker; directed by James Hill; an A. Films Production presented by Kingsley International.

At the Fifty-fifth Street Playhouse and the Fifth Avenue Cinema. Running time: Seventy-four minutes. Carl Mohner Monica..... Mary Yeomans Kevin..... Brian Phelan Paul..... Eric Pohlmann Raymond..... Howard Greene Michael.....

James Bolan Hans..... Scot Finch Gaston.....

Gertan Klauber Max..... Martin Boddey Dimitri..... Sean Lynch Chef..... Charles Lloyd Pack Alfred.....

Frank Atkinson Magi..... Josef Behrmann Frank.....

Frank Pettitt Nick..... George Eugeniou Mangolis.....

Andreas Markos Anne..... Patricia Greene.