Kitchen Sink Drama

A British theatrical movement of the late 1950s and 60s that brought working-class life, domestic settings, and social realism to the stage, challenging the drawing-room dramas that had dominated the West End. John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956) is considered the landmark work. The term refers to the unglamorous domestic settings—plays set in bedsits, council flats, and kitchens—that reflected the everyday lives of ordinary people.