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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 robb...
Published fifty years after the premiere of Entertaining Mr Sloane in 1964, and with a new introduction, this anniversary edition offers an opportunit...
Including the Correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and Others
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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,...
"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...
Fred and Madge : Two Plays
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 ...
โTo be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature.โ When Joe Orton (1933โ1967) wrote thos...
The Biography of Joe Orton
Profiles Joe Orton, the New Wave comic playwright who was brutally murdered by his homosexual lover in 1967...
A Novel
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 trad...
When Gombald Proval strays on to the head of a giant, it's the start of a journey through a nightmare world. He is caught in a gender-bending love aff...
A Comedy
Murder, homosexuality, nymphomania, and sadism are among the themes of this black comedy focusing on a brother and sister who become involved with a y...
A Play
Play
And, The Good and Faithful Servant
A Screenplay for the Beatles
And, The Boy Hairdresser : Two Novels
Two novels which mark the beginning and the end of the famous writing partnership of Orton and Halliwell. Lord Cucumber is a camp pastiche of a Mills ...
Here, together for the first time in one volume, are Joe Orton's earliest and last published works. Head to Toe is the saga of Gombold, who strays ont...
Roots; Serjeant Musgrave's Dance; Loot; Early Morning; The Ruling Class
This collection contains major works by some of the most important playwrights to emerge during the late fifties and early sixties, many of them colle...
A War Surgeon's Education
The author of The Dressing Station offers a powerful memoir of the author's experiences in a combat-zone hospital in Iraq, sharing stories of his fath...
The Ruffian on the Stair, The Erpingham Camp
'Funeral Games' was first presented by Yorkshire Television in August 1968 as part of a series based on ฬThe Seven Deadly Virtues'. Orton created suc...
Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & ...
I suppose I'm a believer in Original Sin. People are profoundly bad but irresistibly funny' Joe Orton. This volume contains everything that Orton wrot...
Joe Orton's brilliantly inventive and staggeringly bold first play. Fred and Madge are a normal couple. Or so we think until a director and an audienc...
Two Novels
Two Plays
Volume 8