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Joe Orton

JOE ORTON

  (1933 - 1967)
Nationality:    British
email:    n/a     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  

Joe Orton Collection held at University of Leicester (GB 338 MS237)
A collection of documents and photographs relating to Joe Orton; including scripts and drafts of published and unpublished plays and novels, correspondence - largely with his agent, Peggy Ramsey - a diary of a stay in Tangiers, scrapbooks, press cuttings, programmes, photographs, and personal memorabilia of Orton and Kenneth Halliwell. Also included is the screen play of Alan Bennett's 'Prick up your ears'. Also included is the screen play of Alan Bennett's 'Prick up your ears'. there is also a collection of secondary printed material by and about Orton kept with this collection. the material is in English

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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

Entertaining Mr Sloane
landlady and her brother entrap young man into sexual company, each for six months of the year.

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1st Produced:
New Arts Theatre, London    1964

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964   978-0413413406

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

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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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

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Genre:
Farce

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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Fred And Madge

Fred And Madge
about a middle-aged couple with menial yet demanding jobs who realise they are performing a play about their own lives. Fred has to push a boulder up a hill, while Madge has to sieve bath water.

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Fred and Madge the Visitors - Two Plays" published by Nick Hern Books (2001)   978-1854593597

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Play/Drama

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Funeral Games

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

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1st Produced:
London    1970

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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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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

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1st Produced:
London    1971

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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Loot

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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1st Produced:
Arts Theatre, Cambridge    1965

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Methuen Drama    978-0413451804

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

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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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

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1st Produced:
London    1966

Organisations:
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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:  -

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Until She Screams

Synopsis:
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Notes:
in Oh! Calcutta!

1st Produced:
London    1970

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

Music:
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Genre:
Sketch

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Up Against It: A Screenplay For the Beatles

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1st Published:
Eyre Methuen, London, 1979   -

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Visitors, The

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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1st Produced:
-    1961

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Fred and Madge the Visitors - Two Plays" published by Nick Hern Books   978-1854593597

Music:
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What the Butler Saw

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.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
London    1969

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Methuen Drama    978-0413366804

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

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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