The Kitchen Sink Drama
Not for no reason the term angry young men was frequently applied to the early contributors movers and shakers involved in the movement.
The kitchen sink drama. Most of them also experienced working class life first hand as opposed to being. Kitchen sink drama by justin cash published november 7 2006 updated july 14 2017 up until the 1950s most english theatre was concerned with middle class dramas and society. In the case of the porters attic apartment the kitchen and living spaces were all one room on the stage.
As a consequence kitchen sink drama usually contains some kind of political agenda about it often a leftist or socialist one and is often motivated by political anger. Kitchen sink drama plays in this category often deal with social issues such as poor living conditions lack of employment poverty and turbulent relationships. Kitchen sink dramas however turned this notion around and made the kitchen the center of familial and social life.
Kitchen sink realism or kitchen sink drama is a british cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre art novels film and television plays whose protagonists usually could be described as angry young men who were disillusioned with modern society. Kitchen sink realism or kitchen sink drama is a term coined to describe a british cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre art novels film and television plays whose protagonists usually could be described as angry young men.