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kitchen-sink drama

NOUN
theater of the absurd
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The kitchen-sink drama “Threads” introduces us to two families connected by the son of one dating the daughter of the other — and getting her pregnant at the worst possible moment.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 20, 2023

Alvarez previously featured the characters in another play, kitchen-sink drama “Dusty de los Santos.”

From Seattle Times Oct. 11, 2023

Based on a play by John Osborne, it was an example of a new gritty style of British film-making that became known as kitchen-sink drama.

From BBC Feb. 8, 2019

And the environment created by the writer and director Gerard Barrett and the cinematographer Piers McGrail looks as drab and forbidding as any ’60s British kitchen-sink drama.

From New York Times Feb. 11, 2016

Although we never see a batch being made, Winter's Bone is a kitchen-sink drama, of sorts.

From The Guardian Feb. 24, 2011




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