This is a very good place to come from. Cos it’s knackered and funny and it’s falling in the sea… But it’s not a good place to end up
Things aren’t going to plan for one family in Withernsea. Pieces are falling off Martin’s milk float as quickly as he’s losing customers and something’s up with Kath’s kitchen sink. Billy is pinning his hopes of a place at art college on a revealing portrait of Dolly Parton, whilst Sophie’s dreams of becoming a Jiu-Jitsu teacher might be disappearing down the plug hole.
Amid the dreaming, dramas and dirty dishes, something has to give. But will it be Kath or the kitchen sink?
An irresistibly funny and tender play about big dreams and small changes, by Bush Associate Playwright Tom Wells.
The Kitchen Sink is supported by the Simon Gray Award.
Ben Stones is a stage designer who trained at Central St Martins. His work in theatre includes Breaking The Code (Royal Exchange), Still Game (2014 and 2017 tours), The Suicide (National Theatre), Good with People (Traverse Theatre and 59E59 New York), Creditors (Donmar and BAM, New York), The Kitchen Sink (Bush Theatre), Belong (Royal Court Upstairs), Arabian Nights (Tricycle Theatre), No Idea (Young Vic), Fool For Love, The Dazzle, Bug (Found111), An Enemy of the People (Sheffield Crucible), Way Upstream (Chichester Festival Theatre), Beautiful Thing (Sound Theatre), Paradise Lost (Headlong), The Mighty Boosh (tour), Speaking in Tongues (Duke of York’s), Crocodile (Riverside Studios, Sky Arts), The Lady in the Van (tour), Doctor Faustus, Edward II, A Taste of Honey and Salt (Royal Exchange), My Generation (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Burberry: London in Shanghai (Shanghai) and Hobson’s Choice and Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre). For Dance; Kes – Ballet premiere (Sheffield Crucible), Into the Hoods: Remixed, Some Like it Hip Hop (Sadlers Wells), The Mad Hatters Tea Party (ROH). Upcoming shows include Julius Caesar (Sheffield Crucible), The Bear and The Proposal (Young Vic).
Sound designer
Theatre credits include Julius Caesar, The Drunks ,The Grain Store (RSC), The Contingency Plan (Bush Theatre), Mary Stewart ( Hipp theatre, Sweden); Hedda Gabler ( Gate Theatre Dublin);Happy Now? (Cottesloe NT); Private Lifes and The Giant (Hampstead theatre); Endgame (Everyman Liverpool); Far From The Madding Crowd ( ETT tour); Lady From The Sea and She Stoops To Conquer (Birmingham Rep); The Elephant Man ( Lycium Sheffield & Tour); Kean (Apollo theatre, West End); Glass Eels ,Comfort Me With Apples ( Hampstead theatre);Jack and the Beanstalk (Barbican Theatre); Pure Gold ( Soho Theatre) Henry V ,Mirandolina and A Convseration (Royal Exchange); Terms of Enderment ( Tour);Restoration (Bristol Old Vic and Tour for Headlong); My Fair Lady (Cameron Mackintosh/National Theatre Tour production); The Caretaker ( Tricycle Theatre), Comedy of Errors, Bird Calls , Iphigenia (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); The Doll?s House (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Sunshine on Leith (Dundee Rep & Tour):Heartbreak House (Watford Palace) A Model Girl(Greenwich theatre) The Solid Gold Cadillac (Garrick Theatre, West End); The Secret Rapture (Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue); Noises Off , All My Son?s , Dr. Faustus (Liverpool Playhouse); On The Piste ( Birmingham Rep); The Chairs ( Gate theatre); Follies ,Insignificance and Breaking the Code (Theatre Royal, Northampton) Tartuffe , The Gentleman From Olmedo, The Venetian Twins, Hobson?s Choice, Dancing at Lughnasa, Love in a Maze (Watermill Theatre); Fields of Gold , Villette (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Cinderella (Bristol Old Vic); Hysteria and Children Of A Lesser God (Salisbury Playhouse).
Opera credits include: Samson et Delilah, Lohengrin (Royal Opera House); The Trojan Trilogy and The Nose (Linbury ROH);The Gentle Giant (The Clore ROH); The Threepenny Opera (for the Opera Group); L’Opera Seria (Batignano Festival)
Tamara Harvey returns to the Bush to direct. Her previous credits for the company include Resillience as part of Steve Water’s The Contingency Plan and tHe dYsFUnCKshOnalZ!. In the West End, she has directed Plague Over England (also the original production at the Finborough), One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Co-Director) and Whipping It Up (Olivier Award nominee, Best New Comedy, from the original production at the Bush by Terry Johnson). Her other theatre work includes Dancing at Lughnasa (Birmingham Rep), Tell Me On A Sunday (UK tour), the premiere of Alistair McGowan’s Timing, Who’s The Daddy? (King’s Head Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe), Bedroom Farce (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Romeo and Juliet (Theatre of Memory at Middle Temple Hall), Rock (UK tour), Touch Wood, Purvis, Storm In A Tea Chest, The Prodigal Son (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), Closer (Royal Theatre, Northampton), One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (UK tour), Bash (Trafalgar Studios), An Hour And A Half Late (Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour), The Importance Of Being Earnest (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, USA), Sitting Pretty (Watford Palace), Markings (Southwark Playhouse/Traverse, Edinburgh), The Graduate (UK tour), Young Emma and Something Cloudy, Something Clear (Finborough), The Lion, The With And The Wardrobe (Maitisong, Botswana). Tamara spent much of 2010 directing the theatre plays that form an integral part of Roland Emmerich’s new film, Anonymous. She is a trustee of the Peggy Ramsay Foundation, a selector for the National Student Drama Festival and is a member of the 2011 panel for the George Devine Award for most Promising Playwright.
Tom Wells lives in Hull. His previous plays at the Bush Theatre include: The Kitchen Sink (which won the Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright and the George Devine Award) and Jumpers For Goalposts (Paines Plough / Hull Truck / Watford Palace).
Other plays include: Me, As A Penguin (West Yorkshire Playhouse / Arcola Theatre); Cosmic (Script Club); Folk (Birmingham Rep / Hull Truck / Watford Palace); and Broken Biscuits (Live Theatre / Paines Plough).
Other credits include: Ben & Lump (Channel 4); Jonesy (BBC Radio 4); and pantos for Middle Child, Hull and the Lyric, Hammersmith.
He is currently under commission to the Royal Court and the National Theatre, and is an Associate Artist of Middle Child.
Andy plays Geoff.
Training: Birmingham School of Acting.
Theatre includes: THE KITCHEN SINK by Tom Wells (Bush Theatre), HELLO/GOODBYE by Peter Souter (Hampstead Theatre), LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST (The Lamb Players), SENSE by Anja Hilling (Made by Brick), ANNA KARENINA (Arcola Theatre), ROMEO AND JULIET (Cheltenham Everyman).
Film includes: Here and Now (Small But Tall Films Ltd).
Television includes: Holby City (BBC), Wizards vs Aliens (BBC), New Tricks (Wall To Wall Ltd), Casualty (BBC).
