While this technique has attracted criticism by some, the shows are often blockbusters such as Mamma Mia! A closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group. Theatre Dictionary Definitions of theatre terms, including closet drama.
Wikipedia Excellent discussion about the writing of…. In theatre, a farce is a comedy that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus improbable. Farces are often highly incomprehensible plot-wise due to the many plot twists and random events that occur , but viewers are encouraged not to try to follow the plot in order to avoid…. The Cry of the Children is about rich businessmen exploiting dirt-poor factory workers, and specifically about the horrors of child labor.
Love on the Dole , based on the novel of the same name by Walter Greenwood. It's set during the s in Sheffield, beginning with the General Strike in and covering one family who gets pulled apart by mass unemployment.
The book and the film were met with critical acclaim, moving people by the shocking depiction of poverty. Marty , which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of , is a simple story about a butcher who falls in love with a schoolteacher, and his mother who is worried that Marty will abandon her.
In the early 60's this genre overlapped with the British New Wave, to which belonged such films as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner This Is England revolves around a group of young skinheads in early s England basically trying to figure out where they fit in the world.
Many of Jimmy McGovern's films. The Soviet film Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears , about a working-class girl struggling to make it in the capital. Min and Bill is about working-class people who live by the docks, and particularly about an old lady innkeeper raising a Doorstop Baby.
The Blot is about a professor and his poor family struggling to get by on the sub-poverty wages paid to university professors. Almost literally a kitchen sink drama, actually, as several scenes show Mrs. Griggs struggling to make tea for visitors or dinner for her hungry daughter while Mrs. Olson, the rich neighbor, prepares rich dinners. Killer of Sheep is a bleak portrait of life amongst the urban poor in the Watts ghetto of Los Angeles in the late s. She makes dinners—potatoes are peeled and veal is breaded in excruciating detail.
She brews coffee. She shines her son's shoes. She washes the dishes in the actual kitchen sink. She knits. She shops for groceries. She receives visitors who pay her for sex.
These classes of people were often conservative in their politics and their ideologies. This was not the case for Kitchen Sink theater. The Kitchen Sink drama sought, instead, to bring the real lives and social inequality of ordinary working class people to the stage. The lives of these people were caught between struggles of power, industry, politics, and social homogenization.
Another chief characteristic of the Kitchen Sink drama was the way in which its characters expressed their unvarnished emotion and dissatisfaction with the ruling class status quo. He is angry and dissatisfied at a world that offers him no social opportunities and a dearth of emotion.
His anger and rage are thus channeled towards those around him. Almost all of the major Kitchen Sink works which take place in the mid-twentieth century, however, are centered around a masculine point of view. These plays rarely centered around the emotions and tribulations of its women characters.
The power dynamic between male and female often assumed to be masculine and is an unexamined critical component in many of these plays. Women are often assumed to serve the men of their household and, when conflicts do arise, it is often the man who is portrayed as the suffering protagonist. Image via Pintrest. L-Shaped Room is perhaps the most hard-hitting of our selection; the story follows Jane Leslie Caron , a young woman deserted by the father of her unborn child. Seeking solace in a grim boarding house, Leslie finds herself on the verge of getting an abortion.
Image via guim. This powerful drama puts us face-to-face with everyday cruelties of classism. Image via BFI. She befriends two sisters from the area, and starts dating working-class lad Pete Dennis Waterman.
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