Orton Complete Plays
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Orton Complete Plays

Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & ...

  1. 448 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Orton Complete Plays

Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & ...

About this book


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)

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Information

Publisher
Methuen Drama
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780413346100
eBook ISBN
9781472537256
Edition
1
Subtopic
Drama

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. THE RUFFIAN ON THE STAIR
  5. ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE
  6. THE GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT
  7. LOOT
  8. THE ERPINGHAM CAMP
  9. FUNERAL GAMES
  10. WHAT THE BUTLER SAW