| Author | : Joe Orton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2013-06-27 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780413777249 |
Prick Up Your Ears
| Author | : John Lahr |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781504031479 |
Story of murder/suicide of playwright Joe Orton and his lover, Ken Halliwell. When Orton, after years of unsuccessful collaboration with Halliwell, breaks away and achieves fame and fortune on his own, Halliwell cracks, hammers Orton to death and then kills himself.
Joe Orton
| Author | : Francesca Coppa |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Comedy |
| ISBN | : 9780815336273 |
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.
Diary Poetics
| Author | : Anna Jackson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2020-08-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1000155544 |
The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writer’s thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diarist’s true self. Focusing on the diaries of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Joe Orton, John Cheever, and Sylvia Plath, this book looks at how six very different professional writers have approached the diary form with its particular demands and literary potential. As a sequence of separate entries the diary is made up of both gaps and continuities, and the different ways diarists negotiate these aspects of the diary form has radical effects on how their diaries represent both the world and the biographical self. The different published editions of the diaries by Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath show how editorial decisions can construct sometimes startlingly different biographical portraits. Yet all diaries are constructed, and all diary constructions depend on how the writer works with the diary form.
The Kenneth Williams Letters
| Author | : Russell Davies |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2008-06 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0007291922 |
Following the bestselling publication of THE KENNETH WILLIAMS DIARIES, the devastating self-portrait of one of our most loved and complex performers is completed with this marvellous selection of his letters. This is a wonderful treasure trove of correspondence with all manner of people, including Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith, Joe Orton, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, and the Stokers' Mess of HMS Leverton. Kenneth Williams took letters very seriously, and he was always disgusted by a morning that failed to provide him with some material to pore over. Letters called forth the performer in Williams in a way that his diaries never did: many of them are virtual comic monologues, and in general they suggest more strongly than the diaries the likeable and constructive side of a man who remains, nevertheless, as outrageous and 'difficult' as ever.
Loot
| Author | : Joe Orton |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 171 |
| Release | : 2014-05-01 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1472517512 |
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.
Diary of a Somebody
| Author | : John Lahr |
| Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 76 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780879101244 |
Screenplay to John Lahr's successful dramatization of The Orton Diaries that chronicles the last eight months of Joe Orton's life, his growing theatrical celebrity, and the corresponding punishing effect it had on his relationship with his friend and mentor Kenneth Halliwell, who murdered him on August 9, 1967, and then took his own life.
Orton Complete Plays
| Author | : Joe Orton |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2014-03-20 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1472537254 |
I suppose I'm a believer in Original Sin. People are profoundly bad but irresistibly funny' Joe Orton. This volume contains everything that Orton wrote for the theatre, radio and television from his first play in 1964, The Ruffian on the Stair, up to his violent death in 1967 at the age of 34. It includes his major successes: Entertaining Mr Sloane, which 'made more blood boil that any other British play in the last ten years' (The Times); Loot, 'a Freudian nightmare', which sports with superstitions about death - as well as life; his farce masterpiece, What the Butler Saw; The Erpingham Camp, his version of The Bacchae, set in a Butlin's holiday resort; together with his television plays, Funeral Games and The Good and Faithful Servant. The volume includes a revealing introduction by John Lahr, Orton's official biographer."He is the Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility" (Observer)
The Queening of America
| Author | : David Van Leer |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2012-11-12 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1136038469 |
Since at least the end of the nineteenth century, gay culture - its humour, its icons, its desires - has been alive and sometimes even visible in the midst of straight American society. David Van Leer puts forward here a series of readings that aim to identify what he calls the "queening" of America, a process by which "rhetorics and situations specific to homosexual culture are presented to a general readership as if culturally neutral." The Queening of America examines how the invisibility of gay male writing, especially in the popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s, facilitated the crossing of gay motifs in straight culture. Van Leer then critiques some current models of making homosexuality visible (the packaging of Joe Orton, the theories of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the rise of gay studies), before concluding more optimistically with the possible alliances between gay culture and other minority discourses.
