Kitchen Sink Drama

O John Randall Bratby

Bratby believed his paintings were rooted in general fifties attitudes and outlooks, being ‘’introvert, grim, khaki in colour, often opposed to prettiness, and dedicated to portraying a stark, raw, ugly reality.’’

Basin with Green Soap

Kitchen

Kitchen II

Characteristics

O It advances a social message or ideology

(which is often leftist)O Settings were middle-classO Bringing social inequality of working

class to the stageO Characters’ dissatisfaction with the

systemO The language is colloquial and slang

Further Sources

Paintings of BratbyO http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpainti

ngs/artists/john-randall-bratby Conversations with Arnold WeskerO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m

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Question

Kitchen sink dramas can be rather depressing and unrelentingly (rigidly) negative, so WHAT IS THEIR VALUE?