Leaving the kitchen sink

Ronald Searle's 'Look Back in Anger', 1956

So it’s finally changed, and after only fifty-something years.  From an interview with British playwright, Polly Denham (Weekend Australian, January 23-24)

. . . a focus on the middle classes is the defining feature of a trend in British theatre.”That was part of the impetus for writing [That Face]: people in pearls watching plays about people doing skag in outer Leeds. Theatre is meant to be a culture of self-examination.”