3 Video: In Rehearsals with the Cast of THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE 4 Photos: Meet the Cast of THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE NTCs third production of their 2018/2019 Season ...
His reward is an exquisitely crafted play that views authority in his time (and ours) with a sardonic eye. Quite a steal for a young man who, as a semi-literate 16-year-old, dropped out of a Leicester ...
A spoof of British manners, morality and respect for authority, Joe Orton’s “Loot” was briefly banned as too scandalous when it debuted in the United Kingdom in 1965. The comedy went on to become a ...
Like life and death, comedy and tragedy are inseparably related — a situation the late British playwright Joe Orton exploited to dramatic and comic effect in “Loot,” his 1966 farce about death, ...
WESTPORT -- If you've had enough of roses, try the thorns. Unless you're squeamish about offending the police, the Catholic Church, undertakers, brothels and Mrs. Edna Welthorpe, race to Joe Orton's ...
A bank heist, a corpse and a crazy cast of characters. Joe Ortons darkly comic masterpiece continues to shock and delight over five decades later. Two young friends, Hal and Dennis, rob a bank next to ...
Black comedy has spawned black farce. Loot is a saucy, unremittingly funny play, spewing its deftly poisoned darts at freshly dead mothers, dutiful fathers (Liam Redmond), marriage, the Roman Catholic ...
Time hasn’t been kind to the plays of Joe Orton, the 50 th anniversary of whose death fell recently. His stock-in-trade of cocking a snook at established authorities and norms – here religion, the ...
HULL Truck has never staged a Joe Orton play until now, a surprising revelation given this theatre’s long, strong association with comedy. Artistic director Gareth Tudor Price has picked the Leicester ...
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