kitchen-sink drama
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This series of misadventures sounds like a gritty kitchen-sink drama, commissioned by someone who feels life is just too cheerful.
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2024
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
Photograph: /Paul Slattery While Marr's guitar style and worldview assimilated Motown, Chic, the Hollies and Iggy Pop, Morrissey added words steeped in Oscar Wilde and 1960s kitchen-sink drama.
From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2013
He said he rewrote “Lights Out” in a similar vein, dreaming up layer after layer of lives in turmoil, “like a 1950s kitchen-sink drama with heightened realism.”
From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2011
