“joe orton”

As one of Britain's legendary group of Angry Young Men dramatists, Joe Orton shot to fame on the strength of vicious farces like Loot and What the Butler Saw. Today, with Orton's work garnering increasing attention and recognition in the wake of the 1987 feature film about his life, Prick Up Your Ea... More

This volume contains every play written by Joe Orton, who emerged in the 1960s as the most talented comic playwright in recent English history and was considered the direct successor to Wilde, Shaw, and Coward.... More

Thirty years after his death, a work that represents a turning point in Joe Orton's career is now available. Between Us Girls is a comic novel, the diary of young would-be actress Susan Hope, whose picaresque adventures lead her from life on the London stage to servitude in the white slave trade of ... More

"To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich "and" happy is surely going against nature." When Joe Orton (1933-1967) wrote those words in his diary in May 1967, he was being hailed as the greatest comic playwright since Oscar Wilde for his darkly hilarious "Entertaining Mr. Sloane... More

"It's Oscar Wilde crossed with Monty Python."-USA Today Lootis a wild parody of detective fiction, adding the blackest farce and jabs at established ideas on death, the police, religion, and justice. This is thestudent edition of Joe Orton's classic farce, first produced in London in 1966. It offer... More

Avirtuosic performance that secures Robert Coover's place as "maybe America's most famous experimental writer, certainly its dirtiest" ("Entertainment Weekly), "The Adventures of Lucky Pierre is a masterpiece. It is set in Cinecity, the frozen capital of an unnamed Utopia--or is it dystopia?--where ... More