kitchen-sink drama

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

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2023

Howard has written a kitchen-sink drama with a difference.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 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

Fighting With My Family Now, this is either going to be a knockabout action comedy about hilarious domestic disputes, or a harrowing kitchen-sink drama about the emotional toil caused by a lifetime of familial resentment.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2017

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