Kitchen sink drama, part of the broader kitchen sink realism movement in British theatre, art, novels and film of the late 1950s and early 1960s, is a theatrical genre depicting the domestic lives of working-class Britons living in cramped rented housing and spending their off hours drinking in grimy pubs, often centered on protagonists described as angry young men disillusioned with modern society. Its style of social realism was used to explore controversial contemporary topics and stood in deliberate contrast to the escapism of the well-made plays of the previous theatrical generation.
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Place of Origin Notable ExampleLook Back in Anger by John Osborne 1 Defining TraitDepicts domestic lives of working class Britons in cramped rented housing 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Kitchen sink realism - Wikipedia
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United Kingdom
History
the John Osborne play Look Back in Anger (1956) is thought of as the first of the genre
Intro
depicted the domestic situations of working-class Britons living in cramped rented accommodation
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Which play is regarded as the first kitchen sink drama?
John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956).
John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956) is generally thought of as the first of the genre. Its angry young man protagonist and its working-class domestic setting became the pattern for the plays that followed in British theatre of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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