Toast

by Richard Bean

1975: the Sunday night shift in a Yorkshire bread plant. Seven men come together to bake enough bread to feed the populations of Hull. It's just another Sunday, Nellie's so worn down from a lifetime making dough, he loses his vest in the mix. First Oven Man's on a promise. The ovens are cranked up and running, and the wholemeal's pleasingly big going in. But there's a spanner in the works which threatens bread production in Hull for good, and life as they know it for the men on the shift.

Genres: Plays

98 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 1999

Reviews

[Christopher · Rating 3 out of 5]

More of a slice-of-life play than particularly dramatically engaging. It is a highly detailed look at these characters and their world, and it is interesting, but I wish there was a stronger structure or drive.