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The Long Table at Bay Six
Bay Six is a cooperative shared kitchen on the second floor of a warehouse conversion on Fourlands Road, and since 1994 it has cooked a public supper on Saturdays for eighty-four covers, while seven members cook a staff meal on Thursdays for themselves alone.
- ~110 min (estimated)
- 24221 words
- 52 scenes
- 10 branch points
- 4 endings
- Monday 12 to Saturday 17 October 2026 at Bay Six, Fourlands Road, with a Sunday coda on the 18th.
21 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Seven members of a cooperative kitchen re-file a recipe drawer because an insurer's letter has asked for a current source line for every dish, and find behind the B divider a ring binder of eleven index cards taped card to card by Beryl Ncube, the club's first cook, who invented the printed credit line in 1978. Nine of the eleven cards are dishes the club still serves, three of those sources are wrong in ways that are small and permanent, and one describes a lamb and chickpea stew every member remembers as the club's own Thursday food and nobody can source. Across six days the club decides what happens to the notebook, what is cooked on Saturday, what the dal's card may say, how the braise note gets translated, who the starter belongs to, what a living jar of pickles is credited with, who tells the club's story to the neighbourhood paper, whether Beryl Ncube is telephoned, what happens when a stranger at a table says a credit is wrong, and finally what the club's own record is. Nothing goes wrong. Every dish gets cooked.
Content notice5 topics · tap to review
- workplace argument about credit, authorship and hospitality
- a gap in a 1974 crew record, described as a gap and nothing more
- a living older woman who may not wish to be asked about a rule she wrote
- a family account of a dal that the family does not believe
- a stranger correcting a printed credit at a table during service
Cast
- R Rosa Nkemelu-Whitlock no portrait yet
- P Priya Venkataraman no portrait yet
- G Gunnar Ekdal no portrait yet
- T Teo Salgado no portrait yet
- A Amara Ibeh-Lund no portrait yet
- S Sun-hee Pak no portrait yet
- K Kofi Mensah no portrait yet
- B Beryl Ncube no portrait yet
- W Walter Stoddard no portrait yet
- D Delphine Otieno no portrait yet