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Joe Orton

JOE ORTON  (1933 - 1967)

 Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  


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below is a list of Joe Orton's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Entertaining Mr Sloane         Erpingham Camp, The         Fred And Madge         Funeral Games         Good And Faithful Servant, The         Loot         Ruffian On The Stair, The         Until She Screams         Up Against It: A Screenplay For The Beatles         Visitors, The         What The Butler Saw

Entertaining Mr Sloane

Joe Orton
landlady and her brother entrap young man into sexual company, each for six months of the year.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Arts Theatre, London    1964

Company:
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1st Published:
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964   9780413413406

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Erpingham Camp, The

Synopsis:
this is a camp for grown ups, not for children, and certainly not for fun, concludes with an elegy

Notes:
in Crimes of Passion

1st Produced:
London    1967

Company:
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1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Farce

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  extras

Further Reference:
-

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Fred And Madge

Joe Orton
push boulders uphill , sieve water, London subsumed by rampant greenery - cast escapes

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1959

Company:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Fred and Madge The Visitors - Two Plays" published by Nick Hern Books   9781854593597

Music:
-

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Funeral Games

Synopsis:
bogus religion, a severed hand and a corpse in the cellar

Notes:
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1st Produced:
London    1970

Company:
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1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Good And Faithful Servant, The

Synopsis:
savage study of the disintegration of an old man when he retires after fifty sterile years in the service of a factory

Notes:
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1st Produced:
London    1971

Company:
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1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Loot

Joe Orton
Hal robs a bank and hides proceeds in his late mother's coffin, a police inspector calls and is arrested himself

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Arts Theatre, Cambridge    1965

Company:
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1st Published:
Methuen Drama    9780413451804

Music:
-

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Genre:
Black Farce Farce. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Ruffian On The Stair, The

Synopsis:
mike has killed the homosexual lover and brother of Wilson, so Wilson pretends to ravish Joyce and forces Mike to shoot him

Notes:
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1st Produced:
London    1966

Company:
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1st Published:
in "Crimes of Passion", Methuen, London, 1967   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay, theme/character one act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Theatre Record Volume XXX Issue 12 Page 646

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Until She Screams

Synopsis:
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Notes:
in Oh! Calcutta!

1st Produced:
London    1970

Company:
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1st Published:
in Evergreen Review, New York, May, 1970   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Sketch

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Up Against It: A Screenplay For The Beatles

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
London    1985

Company:
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1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1979   -

Music:
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Visitors, The

Joe Orton
Kemp is dying in hospital as his daughter visits and nurses spend more time on in-fighting than on patient care

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1961

Company:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Fred and Madge The Visitors - Two Plays" published by Nick Hern Books   9781854593597

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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What The Butler Saw

Joe Orton
A couple each succeed in private seductions and then frantically try to hide their prizes from each other and the inspector.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
London    1969

Company:
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1st Published:
Methuen Drama    9780413366804

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Farce. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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