Methuen Drama, 2001

Modern Classics

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (4), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Sharp, alarming and hilarious, Entertaining Mr Sloane is a subversive black comedy of unscrupulous sexual manipulation. In three deft acts, Orton tells the mischievously provocative story of Mr Sloane, a sly and handsome...

Nick Hern Books, 2014

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Written in 1959 when he was only 26 years old, Fred and Madge was Joe Orton’s very first play and has been rarely produced since its composition. The title characters of the play seem to be the stereotypical middle-aged...

Methuen Drama, 1976

World Classics

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Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Irreverently morbid, impeccably witty and viciously satiric, Funeral Games is a black farce of unconventional piety. Caulfield, a self-confessed member of the criminal classes, is hired as a private investigator...

Methuen Drama, 2006

Student Editions

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (6), Female (1), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes and misfortunes of two young amateur 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...

Methuen Drama, 1976

World Classics

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Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (10), Female (3), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Orton sets The Bacchae in a Butlin’s resort, staging a holidaymakers' revolution as dictatorial jocularity becomes ludicrous anarchy. The camp is run by the martinet Erpingham, who rules his redcoats with an iron fist...

Methuen Drama, 1976

World Classics

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Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...The Good and Faithful Servant is a bitterly comic one-act play, an ironic commentary on lives wasted in corporate servitude. Buchanan is about to retire after fifty years as a commissionaire for the same firm. He is proud...

Methuen Drama, 1976

World Classics

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Orton’s first play, the one-act The Ruffian on the Stair is a claustrophobic black comedy about two domesticated criminals and a menacing stranger. It is two years since Mike persuaded Joyce to give up a rather dubious...

Nick Hern Books, 1998

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (9), Female (7), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Joe Orton’s The Visitors was written in 1961, just a year before his arrest for defacing library books and two years before writing his masterpiece, Entertaining Mr Sloane. The play tells the story of the fractious...

Methuen Drama, 1969

Modern Classics

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Orton’s masterpiece of farce is set in a psychiatrist’s office in which sanity is hard to come by. Studded with Orton’s inimitable epigrams and subversive wit, it is a precise frenzy of nudity, sexuality, accidental transvestism and manic...