Author : John Lahr
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2016-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781504031479
Story of murder/suicide of playwright Joe Orton and his lover, Ken Halliwell. When Orton, after years of unsuccessful collaboration with Halliwell, breaks away and achieves fame and fortune on his own, Halliwell cracks, hammers Orton to death and then kills himself.
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1472536665
"Joe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature" (Sunday Telegraph) The chase is on in this breakneck comedy of licensed insanity, from the moment when Dr Prentice, a psychoanalyst interviewing a prospective secretary, instructs her to undress. The plot of What the Butler Saw contains enough twists and turns, mishaps and changes of fortune, coincidences and lunatic logic to furnish three or four conventional comedies. But however the six characters in search of a plot lose the thread of the action - their wits or their clothes - their verbal self-possession never deserts them. Hailed as a modern comedy every bit as good as Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Orton's play is regularly produced, read and studied. What the Butler Saw was Orton's final play."He is the Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility" (Observer)
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1472517512
A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and have returned to Hal's home to hide-out with the loot. Hal's mother has just died and the pair put the money in her coffin, hiding the body elsewhere in the house. With the arrival of Inspector Truscott, the thickened plot turns topsy-turvy. Playing with all the conventions of popular farce, Orton creates a world gone mad and examines in detail English attitudes at mid-century. The play has been called a Freudian nightmare, which sports with superstitions about death - and life. It is regularly produced in professional and amateur productions. First produced in London in 1966, Loot was hailed as "the most genuinely quick-witted, pungent and sprightly entertainment by a new, young British playwright for a decade" (Sunday Telegraph). The Student Edition offers a plot summary, full commentary, character notes and questions for study, besides a chronology and bibliography.
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 24,59 MB
Release : 2013-06-27
Category :
ISBN : 9780413777249
Author : Francesca Coppa
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Comedy
ISBN : 9780815336273
While writers, dramatists and film-makers have already found inspiration in Orton's colourful life story, this Casebook comprises the first collection of scholarly criticism to investigate the works, life and legacy of the controversial playwright.
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802136442
The fictional diary of young would-be actress Susan Hope, whose adventures lead her from life on the London stage to servitude in the white slave trade of Mexico, and ultimately to film stardom in Hollywood
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802132154
This volume contains every play written by Joe Orton, who emerged in the 1960s as the most talented comic playwright in recent English history. Orton, who was murdered in 1967 at the age of thirty-four, was considered the direct successor to Wilde, Shaw, and Coward. Includes: The Ruffian on the Stair Entertaining Mr. Sloane The Good and Faithful Servant Loot The Erpingham Camp Funeral Games What the Butler Saw
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release :
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1410345300
A Study Guide for Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloane," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release :
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 141034309X
A Study Guide for Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : C.W.E. Bigsby
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 2024-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040145795
Though Orton’s roots lay in traditions as diverse as those represented by such writers as Wycherley, Congreve, Wilde, Shaw, Carroll, Firbank, Feydeau, Beckett and Pinter, he developed a form of ‘anarchic farce’ which was very much his own – hence the word ‘Ortonesque’. His work was deliberately subversive, not merely of the authority figures which he included in nearly all his plays, but of language and the congenialities of plot and character. Originally published in 1982, this study examines Orton’s principal plays, but its main concern is to identify his aesthetic, to elaborate the nature and achievements of anarchic farce and to locate him in relation to the developments in contemporary literature and art which have formed essential components of a post-modern sensibility.
