Jade Anouka in Chef courtesy of Richard Davenport

The last time I saw Jade Anouka on stage she was adding tragedy to hot-headed Hotspur in the all female Henry IV at the Donmar. Here in Sabrina Mahfouz's Chef she once again gets a chance to shine, this time in a solo performance which she's reprised having won the Fringe First Award in Edinburgh last year.

This is the story of a passion for food and cooking that puts a young woman on the path to success and fulfillment only to end up as a convicted inmate. Set in the prison kitchen the rise and fall is told with a mixture of beautiful evocative lyricism and tough, sometimes brutal, contemporary realism.

It is a play and a performance that holds you rapt from the moment Anouka writes 'Perfect peach' on the kitchen white board and then has you salivating as she describes how it should be treated and prepared and how it should taste.