Could be good… The Cafe

The Cafe is a political comedy about austerity, very appropriate and topical at the present time, wherein the owner of a café affected by bad economic conditions, has some very difficult decisions to make and, he knows that, once he makes them, he will have to weather the rebellion of his multicultural workforce.

Austerity soon breeds contempt as his Marx-loving waiter tries to organise a strike. Will he convince a Turk, a Pole and an ex-miner from Bradford that striking is the way forward? Set in the delightful Metrodeco Café, this political comedy puts the Coalition in the kitchen.

The play is penned, and directed, by Portsmouth-based playwright Ben Aitken, whose reputation precedes him so considerably it can often be found in Felixstowe. Joking aside, Fringe Guru’s Richard Stamp was kind enough to suggest that Aitken’s debut play J and C was “among the best new works” he had seen in 2010.

The play is a promenade production and will be staged, as a part of the Brighton Fringe, in a real cafe in Brighton’s fashionable Kemp Town district,

The Café will be performed at the Metrodoco Café, 38 Upper St James’s Street, Kemp Town, Brighton between Tuesday 15 May and Sunday 20 May at 7.30pm.