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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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/joe-orton-books\"\u003eJoe Orton\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1977\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Grove Press, 1977\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780394170015\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Grove Press, 1977","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £18.45","offer_id":47911202160817,"sku":"SB-0394170016-C3","price":18.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0394170016.jpg?v=1789281675"},{"product_id":"entertaining-mr-sloane-modern-plays","title":"Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Modern Plays)","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEntertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he'd seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not until the London production of Loot in 1966 - less than a year before Joe Orton's untimely death - that theatre audiences and critics began to more fully appreciate the originality of Orton's elegant, alarming and hilarious writing. Introduced by John Lahr, the author of Orton's biography Prick up Your Ears, Entertaining Mr Sloane is now established as an essential part of the repertoire of the modern theatre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is a play that has dated no more than The Importance of Being Earnest.' Benedict Nightingale, The Times, 31.1.09 'Forty-five years after its London premiere, Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane comes up almost as fresh as a four-leaf clover. If there has been a funnier British comedy since Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, I cannot recall it.' Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standrad, 2.2.09 'Entertaining Mr Sloane retains its power to provoke and startle. It is a truly amoral piece, wild, witty and utterly heartless.' Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 2.2.09 'The play's language, with its sly double entendres and surreal subversiveness, remains distinctive, crying out for liberation from the restrictive social context of its original creation.' 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Now the publication of these two recently discovered plays, written immediately before his breakthrough successes, reveals a key moment in his development as a dramatist. \u003ci\u003eFred \u0026amp; Madge, \u003c\/i\u003e Orton's first play, is an absurdist drama, fraught with social critique and sexual innuendo. It's the story of a married couple whose respective jobs are the Sisyphean task of rolling boulders uphill and sieving water all day long, until they discover they are inhabiting a play about themselves. \u003ci\u003eThe Visitors\u003c\/i\u003e is a brutally realistic rendering of a dying man who is visited in the hospital by his middle-aged daughter, while the attending nurses spend more time fighting than caring for their patients. 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