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JOE ORTON (1933 - 1967) |
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Nationality: British Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd |
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Plays by Joe Orton |
Entertaining Mr Sloane | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Arts Theatre, London | 1964 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413413406 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26486 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| landlady and her brother entrap young man into sexual company, each for six months of the year. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Erpingham Camp, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1967 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26487 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | in Crimes of Passion | |||||
Synopsis: | this is a camp for grown ups, not for children, and certainly not for fun, concludes with an elegy | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fred And Madge | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1959 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Fred and Madge The Visitors - Two Plays" published by Nick Hern Books | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854593597 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26488 | |||
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| push boulders uphill , sieve water, London subsumed by rampant greenery - cast escapes | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Funeral Games | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26489 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | bogus religion, a severed hand and a corpse in the cellar | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Good And Faithful Servant, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1971 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26490 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | savage study of the disintegration of an old man when he retires after fifty sterile years in the service of a factory | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Loot | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts Theatre, Cambridge | 1965 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413451804 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26491 | |||
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Genre: | Black Farce Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Hal robs a bank and hides proceeds in his late mother's coffin, a police inspector calls and is arrested himself | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ruffian On The Stair, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1966 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Crimes of Passion", Methuen, London, 1967 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26492 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | mike has killed the homosexual lover and brother of Wilson, so Wilson pretends to ravish Joyce and forces Mike to shoot him | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXX Issue 12 Page 646 | |||||
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Until She Screams | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Evergreen Review, New York, May, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26493 | |||
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Genre: | Sketch | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | in Oh! Calcutta! | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Up Against It: A Screenplay For The Beatles | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26494 | |||
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Visitors, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1961 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Fred and Madge The Visitors - Two Plays" published by Nick Hern Books | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781854593597 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26495 | |||
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| Kemp is dying in hospital as his daughter visits and nurses spend more time on in-fighting than on patient care | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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What The Butler Saw | ||
| 1st Produced: | London | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413366804 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #26496 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| A couple each succeed in private seductions and then frantically try to hide their prizes from each other and the inspector. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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