Joe Orton
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John Kingsley "Joe" Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist.
Orton in 1964
Loot (play)
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Loot is a two-act play by the English playwright Joe Orton. The play is a dark farce that satirises the Roman Catholic Church, social attitudes to death, and the integrity of the police force.
Joe Orton
…in New York, Spain, Israel, and Australia as well as made into a film (after Orton's death) and a television play. Orton's next performed work was Loot. The first draft was written from June to October 1964 and was called Funeral Games, a title Orton dropped at Halliwell's suggestion but later reused…
Front cover of programme for the 1992 production at the Lyric Hammersmith