A drawing room play is a type of play, developed during the Victorian period in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
They set middle-class characters confronting a social problem of the time with a comedic twist.
[2] Exponents of this style include Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Wing Pinero, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Edward Martyn and George Moore.
[1] The name drawing room play has its origins in the upper and middle classes of Victorian society, who with time on their hands, enacted amateur plays for the pleasure of their families in the drawing room.
B. Priestley; with in turn John Osborne and the Angry young men, in reaction to the revival, creating kitchen sink dramas.