JOE ORTON   (1933 - 1967)


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Plays by Joe Orton

JOE ORTON
Entertaining Mr Sloane
1st Produced:
New Arts Theatre, London
1964
Company:
-
1st Published:
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964
ISBN
9780413413406
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Entertaining Mr Sloane
landlady and her brother entrap young man into sexual company, each for six months of the year.
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JOE ORTON
Erpingham Camp, The
1st Produced:
London
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
-
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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
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JOE ORTON
Fred And Madge
1st Produced:
-
1959
Company:
-
1st Published:
Contained in: "Fred and Madge The Visitors - Two Plays" published by Nick Hern Books
ISBN
9781854593597
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-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
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Notes:
-
Fred And Madge
push boulders uphill , sieve water, London subsumed by rampant greenery - cast escapes
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JOE ORTON
Funeral Games
1st Produced:
London
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
bogus religion, a severed hand and a corpse in the cellar
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JOE ORTON
Good And Faithful Servant, The
1st Produced:
London
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
-
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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
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JOE ORTON
Loot
1st Produced:
Arts Theatre, Cambridge
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
9780413451804
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Genre:
Black Farce
Farce
Parts:
Male
5
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Loot
Hal robs a bank and hides proceeds in his late mother's coffin, a police inspector calls and is arrested himself
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JOE ORTON
Ruffian On The Stair, The
1st Produced:
London
1966
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Crimes of Passion", Methuen, London, 1967
ISBN
-
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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
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JOE ORTON
Until She Screams
1st Produced:
London
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Evergreen Review, New York, May, 1970
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Sketch
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
in Oh! Calcutta!
Synopsis:
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JOE ORTON
Up Against It: A Screenplay For The Beatles
1st Produced:
London
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1979
ISBN
-
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Genre:
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-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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JOE ORTON
Visitors, The
1st Produced:
-
1961
Company:
-
1st Published:
Contained in: "Fred and Madge The Visitors - Two Plays" published by Nick Hern Books
ISBN
9781854593597
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-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Visitors, The
Kemp is dying in hospital as his daughter visits and nurses spend more time on in-fighting than on patient care
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JOE ORTON
What The Butler Saw
1st Produced:
London
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
9780413366804
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Genre:
-
Farce
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
What The Butler Saw
A couple each succeed in private seductions and then frantically try to hide their prizes from each other and the inspector.
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