Tom Wells’s comedy about marriage, families, making ends meet and dodgy plumbing, The Kitchen Sink, begins the autumn season at the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme.
The play enabled Wells to win both the Critics’ Circle and George Devine awards for most promising playwright in 2012.
It is set in a Yorkshire seaside town. Things are not going to plan for Martin and his family. Bits keep dropping off his milk float, son Billy is obsessed with Dolly Parton and daughter Sophie’s dreams of teaching ju-jitsu are fast disappearing down the plughole. And something’s up with Kath’s kitchen sink.
Amid the dreams, the dramas and the dirty dishes, something has got to give. But will it be Kath or the kitchen sink? And, if they all carry on as they are, maybe Martin’s milk float will not be the only thing falling apart.
The cast features Jason Furnival who was in the National Theatre UK tour of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse, Emma Gregory, Dan Parr, Alice Proctor and Steven Roberts, who made his stage debut as Posner on the UK tour of Alan Bennett’s The History Boys in 2015.
Directed by Zoë Waterman, The Kitchen Sink runs at the New Vic from Friday 23 September until Saturday 8 October.