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Joe Orton

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Joe Orton 1933-67, English playwright, b. John Kingsley. After studying acting, he wrote farcical comedies noted for their cynical humor. His plays include The Ruffian on the Stair (1963), Entertaining Mr. Sloan (1964), Loot (1966), and What the Butler Saw (1969). He was murdered by his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, who then committed suicide. Author not available, ORTON, JOE. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Orton, Joe
Orton, Joe (1933–67), playwright and novelist...perversion made them a succès de scandale . Orton was battered to death in his Islington home...Kenneth Halliwell, who then committed suicide. Orton's novel Between Us Girls , written in 1957... Read more

Joe Orton
...scandalized audiences with their examination of moral corruption, violence, and sexual rapacity. Orton's career was cut short when he was murdered by K.L. Halliwell, his lifelong companion, who afterward committed suicide. Joe Orton Joe Orton Joe Orton Read more

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	Joe Orton's London, today. (Essay). ; ...undergraduate English professor described the works of Joe Orton in a literary comedy class I once took. Orton...techno-beat-filled dance clubs might once have premiered Joe Orton's plays. My search for Joe Orton's London took me on a pilgrimage to the Islington... Read more
	Joe Orton's sexual revolution. ; HE WAS NO ORDINARY JOE: during his short but meteoric...of the postwar British stage, Joe Orton (1933-1967) was getting it both...actually speaking the unspeakable, Orton's renegade comedies explicitly...contradictions are rife and fascinating. Orton was the most visibly gay mainstream... Read more
	JOE ORTON'S LAST NOVEL: SATIRE WITHOUT SUBJECT ; HEAD TO TOE, by Joe Orton. St. Martin's. 187 pp. $13.95. The most interesting part of Joe Orton's life is the part we will never know...of writing things like "Head to Toe," Joe Orton learned how to make irrefutable words... Read more
	Joe Orton's `Butler' packs farce with emotional force ; The playwright Joe Orton loathed the conventional. Before his death...original prankster, Till Eulenspiegel, Orton died a young man. "What the Butler Saw...into meanings all its own," summarized Orton's biographer, John Lahr. The playwright... Read more
	Books: An early cocktail Chris Savage King enjoys youthful cracks from the joker of the stage; Between us Girls; Fred & Madge / The Visitors by Joe Orton Nick Hern Books, pounds 14.99 / pounds 12.99, 195pp / 165pp ; ...roll call of English playwrights, Joe Orton is the joker of the pack and, in retrospect...was once mistaken for class protest. Orton - another kind of working-class hero...repetition and conformity - everything that Orton wanted to escape - and the second... Read more
	COMIC COLLISIONS WITH REVIVAL OF `BUTLER,' JOE ORTON'S DARK HUMOR IS BROUGHT TO LIGHT ; ...comic timing of this scene in Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw," in...icon of gay fearlessness. When Orton died, he was working on a movie...produced posthumously, in what Orton experts say was a badly bowdlerized...production, is considered among Orton's best plays. "Dramatically...us of ... Read more
	A madcap `Butler' turns into a misadventure; THEATER REVIEW: Joe Orton's stinging satire disappears in the extreme farce on display in the Burning House Group's production of "What the Butler Saw.".(NEWS) ; ...Claude Peck; Staff Writer There's been a bit of a run on Joe Orton plays in the Twin Cities in the past couple years, with...Claude Peck - 612-673-7977 WHAT THE BUTLER SAW Who: By Joe Orton. Directed by David Allen Baker Jr. for the Burning House... Read more
	USI ACTORS NEED MORE SNAP TO PULL OFF JOE ORTON'S `LOOT' ; ...a formidable challenge in staging Joe Orton's "Loot." As director Elliot Wasserman...sense of absurdity and the force of Orton's fast, farcical dialogue. "Loot...six-member cast conveyed the absurdity of Orton's dark, leering vision of the comic... Read more
	Company revives Orton's crimes of passion Terry Grimley looks forward to Second City Theatre's Joe Orton double-b ill. ; ...Passion is a double bill surrounding Joe Orton, the shortlived satirical playwright...controversial comic talents. It combines Orton's first one-act play, The Ruffian on the Stair , with Diary of a Somebody , Orton biographer John Lahr's reconstruction... Read more
	Company revives Orton's crimes of passion; Terry Grimley looks forward to Second City Theatre's Joe Orton double-b ill. ; ...Passion is a double bill surrounding Joe Orton, the shortlived satirical playwright...controversial comic talents. It combines Orton's first one-act play, The Ruffian on the Stair , with Diary of a Somebody , Orton biographer John Lahr's reconstruction... Read more

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