When you buy a used copy YOU SAVE
Carbon Dioxide
1.79Kg of CO2
Water
224 litre(s) of Water
Tree
0.0134 Tree(s)
donate
1 book donated to global literacy projects

Orton Complete Plays :Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & ... - World Classics

4.14 ( 1,077 Ratings by Goodreads)
Orton Complete Plays
Look Inside

Orton Complete Plays :Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & ... - World Classics

(Author)
4.14 (1,077 Ratings by Goodreads)
paperback
Published: 22 July, 1976
Standard worldwide delivery by Thu, July 16 - Tue, July 21
Order within 0
Promo Badge
Condition: USED
$8.22
RRP $34.78
You save $26.56 (76%)
Price includes shipping
Available 2 in stock
- +
Add to basket Wishlist This
FREE Returns within 30 days
More Details

Popular Books by Joe Orton

View All Books by Joe Orton
What The Butler Saw
What The Butler Saw
Joe Orton
$17.57
New
Add to basket
Entertaining Mr Sloane
Entertaining Mr Sloane
Joe Orton
$5.69 $16.04
Used
Add to basket
Loot
Loot
Joe Orton
$8.36 $16.04
Used
Add to basket
Entertaining Mr Sloane
Entertaining Mr Sloane
Joe Orton
$16.20
New
Add to basket
The Orton Diaries
The Orton Diaries
Joe Orton
$7.16 $10.69
Used
Add to basket
The Orton Diaries
The Orton Diaries
Joe Orton
$10.57 $22.73
Used
Add to basket
Entertaining Mr Sloane
Entertaining Mr Sloane
Joe Orton
$22.34
New
Add to basket
Loot
Loot
Joe Orton
$19.58
New
Add to basket
The Complete Plays
The Complete Plays
Joe Orton
$24.08
New
Add to basket
Orton Diaries
Orton Diaries
Joe Orton
$6.46 $10.69
Used
Add to basket

Description

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)
See more

More Details

Type Book
ISBN13 9780413346100
ISBN10 0413346102
Number Of Pages 448
Item Weight 418 g
Product Dimensions 130 x 196 x 27 mm
Publisher / Reseller Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format paperback
See More +

GoodReads Reviews

Author's Bio

Joe Orton (1933-1967) was an English playwright noted for his black comedies, which combine genteel dialogue with violent and shocking action. Orton left home at 16 to train as an actor. His subversive style of humour first revealed itself in a bizarre incident in 1962, when he and his lover, Kenneth Halliwell were jailed for defacing library books. The two had carefully removed jacket blurbs from middle-brow novels and substituted their own, mostly scatological, counterfeits. Orton delighted in shocking audiences by breaking taboos surrounding sexuality and death in conventionally structured 'black' farces involving epigrammatic dialogue and frenetic, convoluted plots. Thus, in Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964), a young lodger attempts to lure a woman and her brother into providing him with all he needs, only to find he has become each one's sexual plaything; Loot (1965) is a parody of a detective story involving much comic business with a coffin and a corpse; and What the Butler Saw (1969) stylishly turns farce on its head. Orton was a homosexual in a period before the liberalization of British law, and this side of his life is described in detail in his posthumously published diaries. He was battered to death by Halliwell (who subsequently committed suicide) during a domestic argument at their home in Islington, North London.

Show more