Orton Complete Plays

Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472536665
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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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 : Joe Orton
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802132154
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Plays written by Joe Orton and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472517512
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472537254
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orton Complete Plays written by Joe Orton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I suppose I'm a believer in Original Sin. People are profoundly bad but irresistibly funny' Joe Orton. This volume contains everything that Orton wrote for the theatre, radio and television from his first play in 1964, The Ruffian on the Stair, up to his violent death in 1967 at the age of 34. It includes his major successes: Entertaining Mr Sloane, which 'made more blood boil that any other British play in the last ten years' (The Times); Loot, 'a Freudian nightmare', which sports with superstitions about death - as well as life; his farce masterpiece, What the Butler Saw; The Erpingham Camp, his version of The Bacchae, set in a Butlin's holiday resort; together with his television plays, Funeral Games and The Good and Faithful Servant. The volume includes a revealing introduction by John Lahr, Orton's official biographer."He is the Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility" (Observer)

Author : Joe Orton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Mr Sloane written by Joe Orton and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Entertaining Mr Sloane' was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he had seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not until shortly before Joe Orton's untimely death in 1967 that theatre audiences and critics began to more fully appreciate the originality of Orton's elegant, alarming and hilarious writing. The play centres on the exploits of a landlady and her brother who entrap a young man into sexual company, each for six months of the year.

Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408177986
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orton Complete Plays written by Joe Orton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I suppose I'm a believer in Original Sin. People are profoundly bad but irresistibly funny' Joe Orton. This volume contains everything that Orton wrote for the theatre, radio and television from his first play in 1964, The Ruffian on the Stair, up to his violent death in 1967 at the age of 34. It includes his major successes: Entertaining Mr Sloane, which 'made more blood boil that any other British play in the last ten years' (The Times); Loot, 'a Freudian nightmare', which sports with superstitions about death - as well as life; his farce masterpiece, What the Butler Saw; The Erpingham Camp, his version of The Bacchae, set in a Butlin's holiday resort; together with his television plays, Funeral Games and The Good and Faithful Servant. The volume includes a revealing introduction by John Lahr, Orton's official biographer. "He is the Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility" (Observer)

Author : John Lahr
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453288759
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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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 : Jonathan Kaplan
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802142788
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Author : Joe Orton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joe Orton, the complete plays written by Joe Orton and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joe Orton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780413777249
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orton Diaries written by Joe Orton and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: