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Chef
Sabrina Mahfouz
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Description for Chef
Paperback. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 48 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 56.
I cook here, create here, make here be as much of life as I can because outside of this I’m not safe, I don’t know the way. Chef tells the gripping story of how one woman went from being a haute-cuisine head chef to a convicted inmate running a prison kitchen. Leading us through her world of mouth-watering dishes and heart-breaking memories, Chef questions our attitudes to food, prisoners, violence, love and hope. Inspired by an interview Mahfouz conducted with celebrity chef Ollie Dabbous, Chef studies food as the ultimate art form taking stimulus from Dabbous’s obsession with simplicity ... Read more
I cook here, create here, make here be as much of life as I can because outside of this I’m not safe, I don’t know the way. Chef tells the gripping story of how one woman went from being a haute-cuisine head chef to a convicted inmate running a prison kitchen. Leading us through her world of mouth-watering dishes and heart-breaking memories, Chef questions our attitudes to food, prisoners, violence, love and hope. Inspired by an interview Mahfouz conducted with celebrity chef Ollie Dabbous, Chef studies food as the ultimate art form taking stimulus from Dabbous’s obsession with simplicity ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Modern Plays
Condition
New
Weight
56g
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474265393
SKU
V9781474265393
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Sabrina Mahfouz
Sabrina Mahfouz is a British Egyptian playwright, poet and screenwriter. Chef won a 2014 Fringe First Award; One Hour Only was winner of the 2012 Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Award; Clean was produced by Traverse Theatre and transferred to New York in 2014. Sabrina has been the Sky Arts Academy Scholar for Poetry, Leverhulme Playwright in Residence at Bush ... Read more
Reviews for Chef
A nuanced, deeply moving story…vigorous, subtly political work
The Times
Mahfouz’s poetic script fizzes with energy
Independent
An extremely tasty 50 minutes full of unexpected flavours and depths . . . Lyrical yet bruising writing . . .Cleverly structured . . . The order and cleanliness of the kitchen becomes a metaphor for an escape from ... Read more
The Times
Mahfouz’s poetic script fizzes with energy
Independent
An extremely tasty 50 minutes full of unexpected flavours and depths . . . Lyrical yet bruising writing . . .Cleverly structured . . . The order and cleanliness of the kitchen becomes a metaphor for an escape from ... Read more