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JOE ORTON'S WHAT THE BUTLER SAW WOULD SHOCK THE NANNY (Read more)
 

Joe Orton (1 January 1933, Leicester, England - 9 August 1967, Islington, London), born John Kingsley Orton, was a satirical modern playwright.

In a short but prolific career from 1964 until his death, he shocked, outraged and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies. Ortonesque became a recognised term for "outrageously macabre".  (Read full article from Wikipedia...)


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Dear Diary Find on BBC iplayer
Richard E Grant is one in a long line of the great and not-so- good who have washed their dirty laundry in public, but how truthful are diaries? In this first episode, Grant ventures out of his cluttered study - everyday happenings aren't the only things he hoards - to compare the public and private lives of famous chroniclers. First he meets the sister of 60s playwright Joe Orton, whose journals in part led to his murder; followed by Sheila Hancock, who reveals whether Carry On star Kenneth Williams was as tetchy as his scribblings suggest. Radio Times reviewer - Claire Webb
Monday January 4 2010 21:00 - 22:00
Dear Diary Find on BBC iplayer
A series which asks what we get from reading, and writing, diaries. Richard E Grant, a diarist since childhood, uncovers the power of the diary. He considers the diaries of Joe Orton, Kenneth Williams, Erwin James, John Diamond and Rosemary Ackland and asks whether a diary should, or could, ever be totally honest, wholly accurate and absolutely true.
Tuesday January 5 2010 00:40 - 01:40
Dear Diary Find on BBC iplayer
A series which asks what we get from reading, and writing, diaries. Richard E Grant, a diarist since childhood, uncovers the power of the diary. He considers the diaries of Joe Orton, Kenneth Williams, Erwin James, John Diamond and Rosemary Ackland and asks whether a diary should, or could, ever be totally honest, wholly accurate and absolutely true.
Tuesday January 5 2010 03:10 - 04:10
Dear Diary Find on BBC iplayer
A series which asks what we get from reading, and writing, diaries. Richard E Grant, a diarist since childhood, uncovers the power of the diary. He considers the diaries of Joe Orton, Kenneth Williams, Erwin James, John Diamond and Rosemary Ackland and asks whether a diary should, or could, ever be totally honest, wholly accurate and absolutely true.
Wednesday January 6 2010 20:00 - 21:00
Dear Diary Find on BBC iplayer
A series which asks what we get from reading, and writing, diaries. Richard E Grant, a diarist since childhood, uncovers the power of the diary. He considers the diaries of Joe Orton, Kenneth Williams, Erwin James, John Diamond and Rosemary Ackland and asks whether a diary should, or could, ever be totally honest, wholly accurate and absolutely true.
Thursday January 7 2010 01:45 - 02:45

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Theatre's love affair with ménages à trois
Independent
Joe Orton arranges a blackly comic comeuppance for the amoral youth when Kath and Ed, the gruesome siblings whose father he has kicked to death, ...


Keys v Redknapp: Fight Fight Fight
Football365.com
But we may have read too much Joe Orton. Jamie, to his credit, delivered to Richard not the blows around the head and neck that were his due, but instead a ...


This is London

Richard Bean: What's controversial about saying what I see?
This is London
“Look at what happened with Joe Orton [to whom Bean has been compared]; he didn't like the orthodoxy he found around him, wrote plays about it and suddenly ...


Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw would shock the nanny
Eye Weekly
Written by Joe Orton. Directed by Jim Warren. Presented by Soulpepper Theatre Company. $31.20-$75.33. Runs Aug 19-Sep 18. Opens Aug 25. Mon-Sat 7:30pm; ...

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What the Butler Saw: Clever play is no longer funny
Toronto Star
By Joe Orton. Directed by Jim Warren. Until Sept. 18 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill St. Fashions change, and sensibilities change ...


Globe and Mail

The Butler needs time
Globe and Mail
... up on his popular production of Loot at Soulpepper last summer, director Jim Warren is taking another stab at the outrageous oeuvre of Joe Orton. ...

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What The Butler Saw
NOW Toronto
By Naomi Skwarna Joe Orton wrote What The Butler Saw in 1967, the same year his lover bludgeoned him to death with a hammer. ...


Serving The Servant
National Post
Joe Orton's 1969 play, his last, makes the audience the butler. We gaze at the antics of a more modern kind of English aristocracy, drawn from the ...

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To Be Gay, Free and Mischievous
Hour.ca
The cultural world has just lost a rising star, playwright Joe Orton. After a nightmarish opening, PRICK UP YOUR EARS changes gears and patiently weaves ...


Spring into fall with our annual autumnal arts preview
YourNabe.com
Trust us, you want to see what the butler saw in The Gallery Players' take on Joe Orton's wild comedy, “What the Butler Saw.” Watch the mayhem ensue, ...

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Joe Orton related Blog Posts

Between Us Girls – Joe Orton « Savidge Reads
Savidge Reads
Until I saw this copy of 'Between Us Girls' at the local library I had no idea that Joe Orton has written anything apart from his plays, of which I have seen the marvellous 'Entertaining Mrs Sloane', and his infamous diaries. ...

Kenneth Williams and Joe Orton
Start All Over
Fascinating documentary excerpt which examines both the professional and personal relationship between Kenneth and the playwright Joe Orton, and looks at Kenneth's sexuality. It contains very rare interview footage of Orton himself.

Kenneth Williams and Joe Orton | Health news for World
Health news for World
Fascinating documentary excerpt which examines both the professional and personal relationship between Kenneth and the.

Harold Pinter Archive Blog: Joe Orton: Wormwood Scrubs and the ...
Harold Pinter Archive Blog
It's well known that Joe Orton served time in prison for defacing library books. I have found papers in Peggy's archive showing that the drama group at Wormwood Scrubs – where Joe was incarcerated for part of his sentence -...

LAST CHANCE TO SEE JOE ORTON'S THE RUFFIAN ON THE STAIR | Gay ...
Gay London Travel
The Orange Tree Theatre's acclaimed production of Joe Orton's early black comedy The Ruffian on the Stair comes to the end of its run on Saturday June 19. This is a rare opportunity to see how Orton's debut as a playwright – it was ...

Wit, style and controversy: Sixties playwright Joe Orton
QueensOfVintage.com
Agent provocateur and a brief threat to society's moral decency in the Sixties, playwright Joe Orton was “The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility” and all-round hell raiser. As with any good icon, his life was short but his ...

Victoria Arts | Entertainment | LOOT by Joe Orton - Blue Bridge ...
HarbourLiving.ca - Vancouver Island's Events Calendar Website
From the pen of one of the original creators of Black Comedy, this hilarious farce follows the mad antics of two young men who have robbed a bank but have nowhere to hide the money.

Funcanny: Wordy Thursday - Joe Orton meets The Beatles
Funcanny
Thursday will be the day for longer extracts of stuff - maybe even bits of my own writings, such as they are. Firstly, inspired by Richard E Grant's not particularly inspiring BBC4 programme about diary writing, which began with Joe ...

Video Preview of "Loot" By Joe Orton At OnStage Atlanta
DeKalb CVB
Here is a video preview of "Loot" by Joe Orton playing at OnStage Atlanta through June 26, 2010. For ticket and show information, visit OnStage Atlanta.

British theatre is wrong about Joe Orton | James Martin Charlton ...
Stage: Theatre blog | guardian.co.uk
James Martin Charlton: The playwright and his lover Kenneth Halliwell led exceptionally brave and radical lives – something that plays about them fail to recognise.

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