The Kitchen - 2025

In autumn 2025, I had the honour of lighting designing the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama's performance of "The Kitchen" in the Embassy Theatre in London.

First performed at the Royal Court in 1959, Arnold Wesker's epic masterpiece dramatises the relentless drudgery and frantic toil of a busy restaurant kitchen - a mechanised hell populated by a multitude of chefs and waitresses all battling to satisfy the customer.

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LOCATION

The Embassy Theatre - London

PRODUCER

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

YEAR

2025

SETTING

Proscenium arch theatre - Indoor

The Kitchen

  • by: Arnold Wesker
  • Director: Robert Styles
  • Set Designer: Talitha Bella Sewell
  • Costume Designer: Isabelle Jack
  • Lighting Designer: Felix Weis
  • Sound Designer: Coda Renken
  • Voice: Claudette Williams
  • Dialect Coach: Gurkiran Kaur
  • Movement Director, Additional Choreography and Intimacy: Vanessa Ewan
  • Fight Director: Jonathan Leverett
  • Costume Supervisor: Lia Waber & Karin Schuck
  • Assistant Costume Supervisor: Marcolino Barboza Neto
  • Costume Makers: Esme Downs, Solene Catchpole, Iman Jones, Storm Williams & Micaela Jordao-Viana
  • Dressers: Esme Downs, Solene Catchpole & Iman Jones
  • Associate Director: Callum Sharp
  • Assistant Set Designer: Elizabeth Hoffhines
  • Production Manager: Shaz McGee
  • Stage Manager: Jurui Yu
  • Deputy Stage Manager: Roman Terrazas
  • Assistant Stage Manager: Abby Walsh, Helena Stockford Parsons & Immy Glover
  • Head of Lighting: Isaac Roitt
  • Deputy Head of Lighting: Oliver Stilwell
  • Assistant Lighting Designer and Programmer: Penny Lougher
  • Production Sound Engineer: Alice Manning
  • Flies: Harry Maltby
  • Stage Crew: Alex Webster & Brooklyn C. Eri
  • Dance Captain: Ashini Geen
  • Fight Captain: Halim Diwani
  • Intimacy Captain: Samuel Mandele
  • FOH Manager: Martin Juul Sorensen
  • Thanks to Men at Work, LAMDA, RADA, The Savoy, The National Theatre Green Store, Richard Parr, Consultant Chef - Paul Ritchie, Central Workshop and Mavi, Finn Meader, Watson Stage, National Youth Theatre, Lisa Bain & Alesha Grundy.

Pictures by - © Cam Harle