The concept of “kitchen sink theatre” began in the United Kingdom following World War II as playwrights left the British drawing room setting to feature the hopeless outlook of the working class after the war, with the plays often taking place in the kitchen. As author Dorothy Chansky notes in Kitchen Sink Realisms: Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre, American kitchen sink theatre can be defined as “plays trafficking in the domestic everyday, reveling in the use of household objects, often depicting people of limited financial means, and frequently featuring intense showdowns that favor psychologically credible acting, rather than, say, abstract, consciously poetic, or athletically physical styles.”