Plays that set out to show social life and public events, including kitchen sink drama about ordinary working lives and documentary theatre built from real records, and by extension the well-made play and the problem play that stage a social question. A genre belongs here when its cited article describes it as realist, socially engaged or based on real events. It excludes comedy of manners and romantic comedy.
Realist, Problem and Documentary Drama
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Problem play - Wikipedia
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a form of drama that emerged during the 19th century as part of the wider movement of realism in the arts
Well-made play - Wikipedia
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The well-made play (French: la pièce bien faite, pronounced [pjɛs bjɛ̃ fɛt]) is a dramatic genre from nineteenth-century theatre, developed by the French dramatist Eugène Scribe.
Documentary Theatre (Wikipedia)
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Documentary theatre is theatre that uses pre-existing documentary material (such as newspapers, government reports, interviews, journals, and correspondences) as source material for stories about real events and people, frequently without altering the text in performance.
Kitchen sink realism - Wikipedia
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the John Osborne play Look Back in Anger (1956) is thought of as the first of the genre
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