British Theatre Guide  
Philip Fisher
August 2002 (online)

"Vanessa Badham is the most exciting new voice in Australian theatre. Her razor-sharp wit and savage ideolect make her a prescient political commentator, who nevertheless retains an eye for the intricacies of humanity" - and boy can she write blurb!

It is clear from this first production of one of Miss Badham's plays in Britain that she has talent. nabokov, a company of recent graduates from Sheffield University, have been very lucky to get the opportunity to produce this two-hander.

Kitchen is a very black comedy about Dinkys who suddenly become Sinkys. The husband, Owen has been known as the Machete. This is because he was an HR Manager with a reputation for firing people. Unfortunately for Owen and his equally ruthless wife, Helene, he has just become a victim. The play explores their relationship through the early difficult days after he removes his head from the gas oven having failed to turn it on. By the end of this wild battle of the sexes, he probably regrets his inability to commit suicide.

George Perrin makes Owen seem a little too gormless to have held on either to such a responsible job or Nina Millns' brutal, enslaving Helene. Eventually their tit for tat battle progresses through padlocking the fridge and throwing away the frozen dinners to the more physical.

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