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Joe Orton Libri

1 gennaio 1933 – 9 agosto 1967

John Orton è stato un drammaturgo inglese la cui carriera breve ma prolifica negli anni '60 produsse scandalose commedie nere che scioccarono, indignarono e divertirono il pubblico. Il suo stile, ora definito 'ortonesco', è caratterizzato da un cinismo oscuro ma farsesco che prende di mira la parodia delle norme sociali stabilite. Le opere di Orton esplorano spesso temi come la morte, la polizia, la religione e la giustizia attraverso una lente provocatoria e non convenzionale. La sua eredità letteraria risiede nella sua capacità unica di fondere l'umorismo assurdo con un'acuta critica sociale, lasciando un segno indelebile nel mondo del teatro.

The Methuen Drama Book of Plays from the Sixties

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

540pagine
19 ore di lettura

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.