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    Kitchen sink drama is a term used to describe works that portray the problems of everyday life, such as poverty and unemployment, and was a British cultural movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It focuses on social realism through its use of working-class settings, accents, and exploration of taboo subjects. Examples of kitchen sink drama plays include A Taste of Honey, Room at the Top, and Look Back in Anger.

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    Kitchen sink drama is a term used to describe works that portray the problems of everyday life, such as poverty and unemployment, and was a British cultural movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It focuses on social realism through its use of working-class settings, accents, and exploration of taboo subjects. Examples of kitchen sink drama plays include A Taste of Honey, Room at the Top, and Look Back in Anger.

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    Kitchen Sink Drama Handout

    Definition of Kitchen Sink Drama


     Phrase used to describe a movie, TV show or play that portrays
    the problems of everyday life. It is also a term coined to describe a
    British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and
    early 1960s.
     Some examples of problems characters struggle with whilst
    including Kitchen Sink Dramas are issues such as poverty or
    unemployment and various other struggles.
     It can also be known as social realism.

    How can it relate to theatre?

     Kitchen sink Dramas use a lot of working-class settings and accents


    within their work and tend to explore taboo subjects such as
    adultery, crime etc.
     There are often features of pub/drinking scenes during Kitchen
    Sink Dramas as it shows the social realism side of everyday life.

    A few examples of plays which include ‘Kitchen Sink’


    Dramas:

    o A taste of Honey – 1961


    o Room at the Top – 1959
    o Look back at anger – 1956

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