JOE ORTON (1933 - 1967)
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Joe Orton
Entertaining Mr Sloane |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1964 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Hamish Hamilton, London | 1964 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: landlady and her brother entrap young man into sexual company, each for six months of the year. | ||||
Erpingham Camp, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1967 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1967 | |||
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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 | ||||
Fred And Madge |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1959 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | - | ||
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Synopsis: push boulders uphill , sieve water, London subsumed by rampant greenery - cast escapes | ||||
Funeral Games |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1970 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1970 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: bogus religion, a severed hand and a corpse in the cellar | ||||
Good And Faithful Servant, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1970 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: savage study of the disintegration of an old man when he retires after fifty sterile years in the service of a factory | ||||
Loot |
| 1st Produced: | Cambridge | 1965 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1967 | |||
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| Genre: | Black Farce | Farce | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Hal robs a bank and hides proceeds in his late mother's coffin, a police inspector calls and is arrested himself | ||||
Ruffian On The Stair, The |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1966 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "Crimes of Passion", Methuen, London | 1967 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: mike has killed the homosexual lover and brother of Wilson, so Wilson pretends to ravish Joyce and forces Mike to shoot him | ||||
Until She Screams |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1970 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Evergreen Review, New York, May | 1970 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Sketch | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: in Oh! Calcutta! | ||||
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Up Against It: A Screenplay For The Beatles |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1985 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Eyre Methuen, London | 1979 | ||
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Visitors, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1961 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books, London | - | ||
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Synopsis: Kemp is dying in hospital as his daughter visits and nurses spend more time on in-fighting than on patient care | ||||
What The Butler Saw |
| 1st Produced: | London | 1969 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1969 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Farce | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: A couple each succeed in private seductions and then frantically try to hide their prizes from each other and the inspector. | ||||