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

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

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

Mike Leigh could probably make a kitchen-sink drama about it but it wouldn't be miserable enough.

From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2013