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Joe Orton Bücher

1. Jänner 1933 – 9. August 1967

John Orton war ein englischer Dramatiker, dessen kurze, aber produktive Karriere in den 1960er Jahren skandalöse schwarze Komödien hervorbrachte, die das Publikum schockierten, empörten und amüsierten. Sein Stil, der heute als „Ortonesk“ bezeichnet wird, ist durch einen dunklen, aber farsenhaften Zynismus gekennzeichnet, der die Parodie etablierter gesellschaftlicher Normen zum Ziel hat. Orton's Stücke untersuchen oft Themen wie Tod, Polizei, Religion und Gerechtigkeit durch eine provokative und unkonventionelle Perspektive. Sein literarisches Erbe liegt in seiner einzigartigen Fähigkeit, absurden Humor mit scharfer Gesellschaftskritik zu verbinden und so einen unauslöschlichen Eindruck in der Theaterwelt zu hinterlassen.

The Methuen Drama Book of Plays from the Sixties

Roots; Serjeant Musgrave's Dance; Loot; Early Morning; The Ruling Class

540 Seiten
19 Lesestunden

Five outstanding plays from the British theatre of the 1960s. This volume contains major works by five of the most important playwrights ot emerge during the late fifties and early sixties. Bold, challenging and iconoclastic, these plays are landmarks of post-war British theatre. Roots by Arnold Wesker focuses on the homecoming of young Beatie Bryant who returns to her family of Norfolk farm workers with stories of her boyfriend Ronnie. Serjeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden is set in a mining town in the 19th century, with a group of soldiers returned from a colonial war. But when Musgrave is asked to keep the peace with the colliery workers, he decides to do so in a rather unusual way. Loot by Joe Orton is a brilliant parody of the skeleton-in-the-cupboard crime genre, exploding the very notions of English decency, good citizenry and traditional 'positions'. Edward Bond's Early Morning re-imagines the time of Victoria and Albert caught up in a military coup plotted by Disraeli. Peter Barnes' Ruling Class describes the fall out in an aristocratic family after the 14th Earl commits suicide and leaves his estate to a schizophrenic Franciscan friar who is under the illusion that he is Jesus.