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Life and Work: 'Because We were Queers': 1 OF 2". Joe Orton Online. 28 April 1962 . Retrieved 30 March 2012. Charney, Maurice. 1984. Joe Orton. Grove Press Modern Dramatists series. NY: Grove Press. ISBN 0-394-54241-X

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An hilarious production featuring a brilliant cast, it's a comedy that doesn’t disappoint"★★★★The Upcoming Now at the Jeanette Cochrane Theatre in Holborn. It opened on 27 September 1966 with Gerry Duggan as McLeavy, Sheila Ballantine as Fay, Kenneth Cranham as Hal, Simon Ward as Dennis, and Michael Bates as Inspector Truscott. [3] It was directed by Charles Marowitz and designed by Tony Carruthers. [3] The production transferred to the Criterion Theatre in November 1966. After graduating, both Orton and Halliwell went into regional repertory work: Orton spent four months in Ipswich as an assistant stage manager; Halliwell in Llandudno, Wales. Both returned to London and began to write together. They collaborated on a number of unpublished novels (often imitating Ronald Firbank) with no success at gaining publication. The rejection of their great hope, The Last Days of Sodom, in 1957 led them to solo works. [9] Orton wrote his last novel, The Vision of Gombold Proval (posthumously published as Head to Toe), in 1959. He later drew on these manuscripts for ideas; many show glimpses of his stage-play style.

The play begins when two thieves, Hal and Dennis, decide to rob a bank. They choose one next to the funeral home where Dennis works. They succeed, then need a place to story the "loot" and go to Hal's place, where he lives with both parents. Hal's mother is recently deceased, and her body is still in the home. Knowing the police (Inspector Truscott) aren't far behind, in desperation they hid the stolen cash in the coffin.I Had It in Me, Leonie Orton (Barnett), 2016, Leicester: Quirky Press, pp. 173, 186, see Chapter 14, 'The Latter Part' about the mystery of Joe's London diary Orton was cremated at the Golders Green Crematorium, his maroon cloth-draped coffin being brought into the west chapel to a recording of The Beatles song " A Day in the Life". [37] Harold Pinter read the eulogy, concluding with "He was a bloody marvellous writer." Orton's agent Peggy Ramsay described Orton's relatives as "the little people in Leicester", [38] leaving a cold, nondescript note and bouquet at the funeral on their behalf. A phenomenal piece of theatre directed with flair & understanding of the material by Michael Fentiman. Loot is a superb farce where timing is crucial and this cast pulls it off - a magical theatrical experience."★★★★★ Boyz In 2017, film-maker Chris Shepherd made an animated short inspired by Orton's Edna Welthorpe letters, 'Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs)', starring Alison Steadman as Edna. [49]

Orton, John Kingsley [Joe] (1933–1967), playwright | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/35334. ISBN 9780198614128. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) None of the characters are particularly likable, as the father considers whether to remarry and the nurse is trying to position herself to find a sugar daddy, but perhaps the worst is the police inspector, who will use whatever methods necessary to find the cash. LOOT is an example of the sad fag end of the sixties as they misfired to a close.I half expect to see Withnail and I come lurching over the horizon like spectres. The talks were complemented by an exhibition about Loot that features rarely-seen material from the Joe Orton Archive at the University of Leicester.

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It was 35 years ago today: Nihilism with a smile". The Independent. London. 9 May 1999. Archived from the original on 9 June 2022. Lines where Hal speaks to Dennis of “denying ourselves” and “taking my breath away” and the phrase the “wreaths are blown to buggery”, a reference to the flowers at the funeral of Hal’s mother, were all cut. What The Butler Saw – Anderson, Lindsay – V&A Search the Collections". collections.vam.ac.uk. 1975.