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Kitchen Sink Drama
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Setting
Plays from the Kitchen Sink Genre
Look Back in Anger - John Osbourne 1956
This is considered the first Kitchen Sink Drama.
Billy Liar - Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse
A Taste of Honey - Shelagh Delaney(1958)
Roots - Arnold Wesker (1959)
The play begins with a character standing at a kitchen sink.
Historical Background
Key Features
Angry Young Man
- The 1950’s through the 1970’s saw the rise of one of the most important movements in modern British theatre: the Kitchen Sink drama.
- Victorian theatre up until the 1950's focused on upper class people and depicted their lives and issues on stage.
- Kitchen Sink drama was the opposite and gave a voice to the lower classes of Britain.
- Kitchen Sink Drama's always shares a particular social message or ideology with the audience.
- The genre bring the real lives and social inequality of ordinary working class people to the stage.
- The lives of these people were caught between struggles of power, industry and politics.
- Kitchen Sink Dramas depicted the most intimate aspects of domestic life.
- The 'Angry Young Man' is a term given to key characters in Kitchen Sink Dramas.
- The 'Angry Young Man' is angry and dissatisfied at a world that offers him no social opportunities.
- He longs to live a “real life.” He feels that the trappings of working class domesticity keep him from reaching a better existence. His anger and rage are thus channeled towards those around him.
- Kitchen Sink Dramas are always located in a domestic setting.
- The settings were usually miserable and dull.
The power dynamic between male and female often assumed to be masculine and is a critical component in many of these plays. Women are often assumed to serve the men of their household and, when conflicts do arise, it is often the man who is portrayed as the suffering protagonist. Women’s suffering is always a result of the suffering of the male.
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