KITCHEN SINK Bush Theatre

The phrase, “Kitchen Sink”, conjures up the 1950’s and the Royal Court’s angry young men and Joan Littlewood’s Stratford East and her slice-of-life dramas. Tom Wells’s play is a series of short scenes tracing what happens to one family over a year and he gets a lot of gentle comic mileage out of what is essentially a sad piece about unhappy, frustrated, routine, empty lives going absolutely nowhere. Dad, a milkman, knows what failure is. It is a craft he has practised for 25 years.