Zena Dhia Mohammed Hassan Al-Munshi & Azhar Mohammed Al-Taief
University of Karbala, Iraq
Arnold Wesker (1932-2016) is a prolific English playwright who belongs to the New Wave of British Theatre in the 1950s that has emerged as a reaction to the social, political, and economical changes after World War II. Wesker is also a representative of ‘Kitchen-Sink Drama’, a new type of drama that has surfaced in the late 1950s and early 1960s and which depicts the lives of the working-class characters in domestic settings. Wesker presents realistic characters who express anger, disdain and frustration towards the failure of the social and political systems and institutions in Britain in the aftermath of the war. This paper examines the employment of social realism in demonstrating the dreadful conditions of the British working-class society in the aftermath of World War II in the context of Arnold Wesker’s The Kitchen. It also attempts to identify the features of “Kitchen-Sink Drama” within the play.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Third International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 31 January-1February 2019 , Ahwaz.
