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Author : Joe Orton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book Entertaining Mr. Sloane written by Joe Orton and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : London : H. Hamilton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book Entertaining Mr. Sloane written by Joe Orton and published by London : H. Hamilton. This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder, homosexuality, nymphomania, and sadism are among the themes of this black comedy focusing on a brother and sister who become involved with a young, sexy, amoral drifter with a mysterious past. Kath is a lonely middle-aged woman living in the London suburbs with her ageing father Kemp, referred to as "DaDa". When she meets Mr. Sloane sunbathing on a tombstone in the cemetery near her home, she invites him to become a lodger. Soon after he accepts her offer, Kath seduces him. Her closeted brother Ed makes him the chauffeur, complete with a tight leather uniform, of his pink 1959 Pontiac Parisienne convertible. Kemp recognizes Mr. Sloane as the man who killed his boss years before, and stabs him in the leg with a gardening tool. Mr. Sloane takes delight in playing brother against sister and tormenting the elderly man. He gets Kath pregnant and a jealous Ed warns him to stay away from her. When Mr. Sloane murders Kemp to protect his secret, they blackmail him by threatening to report him to the police, unless he agrees to participate in a ménage à trois in which he becomes not only a sexual partner but their prisoner as well.
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472522052
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book Entertaining Mr Sloane written by Joe Orton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published fifty years after the premiere of Entertaining Mr Sloane in 1964, and with a new introduction, this anniversary edition offers an opportunity to reappraise Joe Orton's reputation, and the status of his first major play, from a twenty-first century perspective. When it first appeared in the Swinging Sixties, Orton's satire on social and sexual hypocrisy both scandalized and delighted audiences. Its mix of sexuality and violence was explosive. Within a year, the play was being performed around the world and went on to be adapted for film and television, establishing Orton as a major voice and this play as one of the most ground-breaking of the century. This anniversary edition features previously unpublished material from the Joe Orton Archive, an interview with director Nick Bagnall, and an introduction by Emma Parker, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester.
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : London : H. Hamilton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book Entertaining Mr. Sloane written by Joe Orton and published by London : H. Hamilton. This book was released on 1964 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472532775
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book Entertaining Mr Sloane written by Joe Orton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published fifty years after the premiere of Entertaining Mr Sloane in 1964, and with a new introduction, this anniversary edition offers an opportunity to reappraise Joe Orton's reputation, and the status of his first major play, from a twenty-first century perspective. When it first appeared in the Swinging Sixties, Orton's satire on social and sexual hypocrisy both scandalized and delighted audiences. Its mix of sexuality and violence was explosive. Within a year, the play was being performed around the world and went on to be adapted for film and television, establishing Orton as a major voice and this play as one of the most ground-breaking of the century. This anniversary edition features previously unpublished material from the Joe Orton Archive, an interview with director Nick Bagnall, and an introduction by Emma Parker, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester.
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472536665
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book What The Butler Saw written by Joe Orton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410345300
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Study Guide for Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Stratford Festival Collection
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Entertaining Mr. Sloane written by Stratford Festival Collection and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lahr
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453288759
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prick Up Your Ears written by John Lahr and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThis mesmerizing story of playwright and author Joe Orton’s brief and remarkable life was named book of the year by Truman Capote and Nobel Prize–winning novelist Patrick White /divDIV Told with precision and extensive detail, Prick Up Your Ears is the engrossing biography of playwright and novelist Joe Orton. Orton’s public career spanned only three years (1964–1967), but his work made a lasting mark on the international stage. From Entertaining Mr. Sloane to his career-making Loot, Orton’s plays often shocked, sometimes outraged, and always captivated audiences with their dark yet farcical cynicism. A rising star and undeniable talent, Orton left much undone when he was bludgeoned to death by his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, who had educated Orton and also dreamed of becoming a famous writer. /divDIV /divDIVPrick Up Your Ears was the basis for the distinguished 1987 film of the same name, directed by Stephen Frears, with a screenplay by Alan Bennett, and starring Gary Oldman and Vanessa Redgrave. A brilliant, page-turning examination of the dueling forces behind Orton’s work, Prick Up Your Ears secured the playwright’s reputation as a great twentieth-century artist./div
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472517512
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Loot written by Joe Orton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
