Word: wesker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kitchen. Too many cooks cannot spoil this spluttering slumgullion of socialism and melodrama, heated to a rolling boil by British Playwright Arnold Wesker...
...Kitchen. British Playwright Arnold Wesker's socialist shocker clatters, boils and roars its way through a day in the help's half of a big London restaurant. As dialectic it may be flimsy, but as theater it is a feast...
...Kitchen. British Playwright Arnold Wesker's socialist shocker clatters, boils and roars its way through a day in the help's half of a big London restaurant. As dialectic it may be flimsy, but as theater it is a feast...
...evening rush begins. The German, pressed too hard, grabs a cleaver, runs amok, chops the main gas line. The kitchen, the social order, the whole vast conspiracy of unmeaning that, as Playwright Wesker sees it, prisons and demeans mankind, is interrupted, annulled. The owner stands stupefied. "You stopped my world," he mumbles. "Did you have permission from God? You work...
Playwright Wesker's dialectic is flimsy and his metaphor is strained, but his theater is terrific. Transferring such theater to the screen is about as tetchy an operation as carrying nitroglycerin in a sieve, but Director James Hill, in his first full-length film, has done the job with a sure hand. He shuts the spectator up in that hellhole of a kitchen until he feels like a cabbagehead after 74 minutes in a pressure cooker. If Leftist Wesker expects moviegoers, at the end of the film, to rise and shake off their chains, he is going...