Take a pinch of righteous anger, a sprinkling of political disappointment and a good dollop of marital misery and you can make your very own Kitchen Sink Drama in minutes!
Life has been a little more gritty than usual for most of us recently, and we’ve all spent more time at the kitchen sink than we would in normal times. We’re thinking that before the predicted artistic revolution of ‘roaring 2020s’ arrives, we must surely be due a kitchen sink revival.
With that in mind, we’ve decided to pen a short kitchen sink drama of our own, and we’d love you to join in the fun. Phone a friend of family member with a talent for writing (or just a tendency to the dramatic), choose six items from the following list and build your own kitchen sink drama. Start with a gritty location somewhere in Great Britain, decide on a scenario and build your story around your six items. We’ll take any messages from The Royal Court theatre while you’re busy. Go!
A north of England accent, Salford for preference
An angry young man, preferably wearing a grubby white vest, reading a left-wing tract aggressively
A secret but unwanted pregnancy
A difficult conversation about communism over the dinner table
A youthful and hot-headed idealist with a ‘jolly good sort’ name, such as Helen or Jo
An amiable but awkward lodger
The Sunday papers, strewn messily across the floor
An endless basket of ironing and a utilitarian-looking ironing board that’s seen some action
A cameo featuring a future Labour party MP*
A Raleigh bicycle, leaned rakishly against the set somewhere
If you love a kitchen sink but could have enough of the angry young men, turn to page 112 of our March issue, where we’ve gathered together some of the most covetable kitchen sinks we’ve seen in our My Place feature. The one above belongs to Aisling Kirwan @mylimestonehome.
*It’s true. Hazel Blears did in fact appear as a street urchin in the 1961 film of Shelagh Delany’s A Taste of Honey.
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