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Author: John Lahr Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 9781504031479 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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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: John Lahr Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 9781504031479 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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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 ISBN: 1472536665 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 96
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"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 ISBN: 1472517512 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 171
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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: Grove Press ISBN: 9780802132154 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 458
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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: Joe Orton Publisher: ISBN: 9780802136442 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 194
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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: Francesca Coppa Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780815336273 Category : Comedy Languages : en Pages : 196
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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: Gale, Cengage Learning Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning ISBN: 141034309X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 34
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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: Gale, Cengage Learning Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning ISBN: 1410345300 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 35
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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: Joe Orton Publisher: Grove Press ISBN: 9780802136282 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 198
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In "Fred and Madge," a married couple has the unending jobs of rolling boulders uphill and sieving water all day long; and in "The Visitors," a dying man is visited in the hospital by his middle-aged daughter.
Author: John Lahr
Author: John Lahr
Author: Joe Orton
Author: Joe Orton
Author: Joe Orton
Author: Joe Orton
Author: Joe Orton
Author: Francesca Coppa
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Author: Joe Orton