10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KITCHEN-SINK DRAMA»
Discover the use of
kitchen-sink drama in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
kitchen-sink drama and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Western
Drama Through the Ages: A Student Reference Guide
Kitchen. Sink. Drama. Reade Dornan Newspaper critics in the 1960s hailed the
appearance of what they called in Britain ''Kitchen Sink drama.'' Although not a
movement or a homogeneous group of like-minded playwrights, this ...
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Interfaces: Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance
During the twentieth century, however, the kitchen became a performance site
more generally: for example, in the mid-1950s the term kitchen-sink drama was
initiated by John Osborne's Look Back in Anger and applied to many of the British
...
Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson, 2002
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John Osborne's Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger is one of the few works of drama that are indisputably central to British culture in general, and its name is one of the most well-known in postwar cultural history.
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The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Kitchen sink drama 'Kitchen sink drama' is a term often applied (perhaps rather
scathingly) to a form of social realist theatre that became popular in the 1950s,
and was characterised by a focus on social issues and debates. It was essentially
...
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Playing a Part in History: The York Mysteries, 1951-2006
The critic's reference to the 'kitchen-sink whine' was inevitable given Gaskill's
recent association with the Royal Court Theatre, the home of 'kitchen sink' drama.
By 1963, however, 'kitchen sink' had made its presence felt in the professional ...
Kitchen sink drama The phrase 'kitchen sink drama' emerged in the 1960s to
describe a kind of play that expressed the ordinary and the unsavoury, using the
particular idiom of English poetic realism. The premiere of John Osborne's debut
...
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English Literature: A Student Guide
1929) and his play Look Back in Anger (1956) marked the start of a new type of
play, and added two new phrases to the language: kitchen sink drama, and the
angry young man. Look Back in Anger has as its hero Jimmy Porter. For almost
the ...
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Popular Television
Drama: Critical Perspectives
In this respect Clocking Ojfcould be said to belong to the genre of the 'kitchen
sink' drama, but the emphasis on the collective experience of the workplace
opens the drama out to embrace a social dimension which some of the earlier
kitchen ...
Jonathan Bignell, Stephen Lacey, 2005
Kitchen sink drama: a scene from John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (at the
Littleton/National Theatre, 1999) Look at scenario G on page ,r4. Revise it, setting
it in an ordinary home. Improvise two dramas: the first using the scenario as
written ...
David Cross, Christopher Reynolds, 2002
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Objective Approach To English Literature For Net, Jrt, Slet ...
The labels of 'Kitchen-sink drama', 'Absurd drama', 'Comedy of menace', 'dark
comedy' and 'Drama of cruelty' are used by (a) journalists (b) playwrights (c)
drama critics (d) men of literature 318. 'The theatre of the Absurd' was first used
by (a) ...
Ivan K. Masih, K.K. Narayan, Rahmat Jahan & Neeraj Kumar, 2007
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KITCHEN-SINK DRAMA»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
kitchen-sink drama is used in the context of the following news items.
Blackbird Theater's new original production focuses on the gods …
... claims that the musical's language is heightened, much closer to Shakespeare than kitchen-sink drama, with bold, passionate figures. «Nashville Scene, Jul 15»
Haven't finished Harper's Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' yet?
Her arguing with Atticus plays like '50s kitchen-sink drama. Intriguingly, some passages exist in “Mockingbird” in altered form. An extended ... «fox13now.com, Jul 15»
Stage Door: Awake and Sing
The famed kitchen-sink drama was the first to put the realities of American Jews on Broadway. A marginalized group had suddenly been thrust ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
English Comedian Of The Year 2015 final
His set is almost a kitchen-sink drama in its portrayal of a moribund relationship; dryly funny if short on rip-roaring moments. Andy Watson, in ... «Chortle, Jul 15»
Review: Adolf in Toxteth at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool
We're skipping forward a bit here but sit in on Ian Carroll's self-proclaimed 'kitchen-sink drama with a difference' and you'll find history getting ... «Liverpool Echo, Jul 15»
Shaw Festival's Top Girls' real tour-de-force is its final scene
Churchill demonstrates her ability to knock a kitchen-sink drama out of the park in this scene – but the enduringly exciting British playwright ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
Toni Collette: 'Every scene was like being punched'
'So much more than a kitchen-sink drama, it has poetry' … Jack Reynor and Toni Collette in Glassland. “It rang very, very true. Ultimately, no ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
Kitchen-sink drama: A new home front opens in the battle for the …
Just as there are people who obsessively pursue a tidy desk policy, so, it seems, there are those who follow the doctrine of the tidy kitchen. «The Independent, Mar 15»
Taylor Mac's 'Hir': Just Your Average Kitchen-Sink, Genderqueer …
What I was trying to do was write a eulogy for the kitchen-sink drama, as a metaphor for the old world orders that aren't working anymore. «American Theatre, Nov 14»
The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd review – DH Lawrence at the kitchen …
You might see in this story of a woman shackled to a brutish bloke the beginnings of kitchen-sink drama. Ironing is as central to the placing of ... «The Guardian, Sep 14»
