In a play by this author, Sir Robert Morton grills a teenager accused of stealing a postal order, only to end the act by concluding, “The boy is plainly innocent.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this playwright of understated dramas like Deep Blue Sea and The Winslow Boy. The “Himmler of the Lower Fifth” receives a goodbye present from one of his students in this author’s play The Browning Version.
ANSWER: Terence Rattigan [or Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan]
[10e] Though now often revived, Rattigan’s “well-made” plays were eclipsed in the 1950s by this dramatic style. This explosive style of “angry young men” like Arnold Wesker and John Osborne is named for an appliance.
ANSWER: kitchen sink realism [or kitchen sink drama]
[10h] Kitchen sink partisans seized on Rattigan’s claim that he wrote plays for this hypothetical “hopeless lowbrow” theatergoer. Rattigan inspired Joe Orton to create an alter ego of this name with the surname Welthorpe.
ANSWER: Aunt Edna [accept Edna Welthorpe]
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