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Author : Francesca Coppa
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Comedy
ISBN : 0815336276
While writers, dramatists and film-makers have already found inspiration in Orton's colourful life story, this Casebook comprises the first collection of scholarly criticism to investigate the works, life and legacy of the controversial playwright.
Author : John Lahr
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781453288757
DIVThis mesmerizing story of playwright and author Joe Orton’s brief and remarkable life was named book of the year by Truman Capote and Nobel Prize–winning novelist Patrick White /divDIV Told with precision and extensive detail, Prick Up Your Ears is the engrossing biography of playwright and novelist Joe Orton. Orton’s public career spanned only three years (1964–1967), but his work made a lasting mark on the international stage. From Entertaining Mr. Sloane to his career-making Loot, Orton’s plays often shocked, sometimes outraged, and always captivated audiences with their dark yet farcical cynicism. A rising star and undeniable talent, Orton left much undone when he was bludgeoned to death by his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, who had educated Orton and also dreamed of becoming a famous writer. /divDIV /divDIVPrick Up Your Ears was the basis for the distinguished 1987 film of the same name, directed by Stephen Frears, with a screenplay by Alan Bennett, and starring Gary Oldman and Vanessa Redgrave. A brilliant, page-turning examination of the dueling forces behind Orton’s work, Prick Up Your Ears secured the playwright’s reputation as a great twentieth-century artist./div
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410345301
A Study Guide for Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloane," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410343093
A Study Guide for Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0413777243
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472536662
"Joe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature" (Sunday Telegraph) The chase is on in this breakneck comedy of licensed insanity, from the moment when Dr Prentice, a psychoanalyst interviewing a prospective secretary, instructs her to undress. The plot of What the Butler Saw contains enough twists and turns, mishaps and changes of fortune, coincidences and lunatic logic to furnish three or four conventional comedies. But however the six characters in search of a plot lose the thread of the action - their wits or their clothes - their verbal self-possession never deserts them. Hailed as a modern comedy every bit as good as Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Orton's play is regularly produced, read and studied. What the Butler Saw was Orton's final play."He is the Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility" (Observer)
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472517517
A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and have returned to Hal's home to hide-out with the loot. Hal's mother has just died and the pair put the money in her coffin, hiding the body elsewhere in the house. With the arrival of Inspector Truscott, the thickened plot turns topsy-turvy. Playing with all the conventions of popular farce, Orton creates a world gone mad and examines in detail English attitudes at mid-century. The play has been called a Freudian nightmare, which sports with superstitions about death - and life. It is regularly produced in professional and amateur productions. First produced in London in 1966, Loot was hailed as "the most genuinely quick-witted, pungent and sprightly entertainment by a new, young British playwright for a decade" (Sunday Telegraph). The Student Edition offers a plot summary, full commentary, character notes and questions for study, besides a chronology and bibliography.
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1038797246
'Entertaining Mr Sloane' was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he had seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not until shortly before Joe Orton's untimely death in 1967 that theatre audiences and critics began to more fully appreciate the originality of Orton's elegant, alarming and hilarious writing. The play centres on the exploits of a landlady and her brother who entrap a young man into sexual company, each for six months of the year.
Author : Leslie Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0389208205
Contents: The Nature of Farce; A.W. Pinero and the Court Farces; Ben Travers and the Aldwych Farces; Brian Rix and the Whitehall Farces; Post-Whitehall Farces; Joe Orton; Farce and Contemporary Drama: I; Farce and Contemporary Drama: II; Conclusion; ^R Appendix: a Chronological List of Plays; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Author : Jonathan Kaplan
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802142788
The author of The Dressing Station offers a powerful memoir of the author's experiences in a combat-zone hospital in Iraq, sharing stories of his father's experiences as a surgeon on the battlefield in World War II. Reprint.
Author : Michael Earley,Philippa Keil
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0413672107
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Susan Rusinko
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015034886369
British comic playwright Joe Orton is known for his outrageous clownishness and his progression towards pure farce which arose from his socially anarchic view of the 1960s. Like Monty Python, Orton drew much of his material from British culture. This text analyzes Orton's three major plays, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot and What the Butler Saw, from a biographical perspective. This study is an introduction to the playwright and his work.
Author : Christopher Ricks,Leonard Michaels
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520059069
Fifty new contributors have written essays and poems that engage the English language as it is today. This new edition includes "bad language" that has lately done so well in today's society.
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0802136281
In "Fred and Madge," a married couple has the unending jobs of rolling boulders uphill and sieving water all day long; and in "The Visitors," a dying man is visited in the hospital by his middle-aged daughter.
Author : R. Barton Palmer,William Robert Bray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107001015
The first comprehensive study of British and American films adapted from modern British plays.