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Joe Orton

    1 januari 1933 – 9 augustus 1967

    John Orton was een Engelse toneelschrijver wiens korte maar productieve carrière in de jaren zestig schandalige zwarte komedies voortbracht die het publiek schokten, verontrustten en vermaakten. Zijn stijl, nu 'Ortonesk' genoemd, wordt gekenmerkt door een duister maar farsiek cynisme dat de spot drijft met gevestigde maatschappelijke normen. Orton's toneelstukken onderzoeken vaak thema's als de dood, de politie, religie en gerechtigheid vanuit een provocatief en onconventioneel perspectief. Zijn literaire nalatenschap ligt in zijn unieke vermogen om absurde humor te combineren met scherpe maatschappelijke kritiek, waarmee hij een onuitwisbare indruk achterliet in de theaterwereld.

    The Methuen Drama Book of Plays from the Sixties
    Crimes of Passion
    Entertaining Mr Sloane
    What the Butler Saw
    Loot
    The Complete Plays
    • The Methuen Drama Book of Plays from the Sixties

      Roots; Serjeant Musgrave's Dance; Loot; Early Morning; The Ruling Class

      • 540bladzijden
      • 19 uur lezen

      Five outstanding plays from the British theatre of the 1960s. This volume contains major works by five of the most important playwrights ot emerge during the late fifties and early sixties. Bold, challenging and iconoclastic, these plays are landmarks of post-war British theatre. Roots by Arnold Wesker focuses on the homecoming of young Beatie Bryant who returns to her family of Norfolk farm workers with stories of her boyfriend Ronnie. Serjeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden is set in a mining town in the 19th century, with a group of soldiers returned from a colonial war. But when Musgrave is asked to keep the peace with the colliery workers, he decides to do so in a rather unusual way. Loot by Joe Orton is a brilliant parody of the skeleton-in-the-cupboard crime genre, exploding the very notions of English decency, good citizenry and traditional 'positions'. Edward Bond's Early Morning re-imagines the time of Victoria and Albert caught up in a military coup plotted by Disraeli. Peter Barnes' Ruling Class describes the fall out in an aristocratic family after the 14th Earl commits suicide and leaves his estate to a schizophrenic Franciscan friar who is under the illusion that he is Jesus.

      The Methuen Drama Book of Plays from the Sixties2008
    • The Complete Plays

      • 448bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      Collects all seven plays by English playwright Joe Orton, published between 1964 and 1967

      The Complete Plays1976
      4,2
    • One of the most enduring comedies of the modern British stage

      Loot1967
      3,8