Joe Orton, The Complete Plays: The Ruffian on the Stair, Entertaining Mr. Sloan, The Good and Faithful Servant, Loot, The Erpingham Camp, Funeral Games, What the Butler Saw - Hardcover
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I suppose I'm a believer in Original Sin. People are profoundly bad but irresistibly funny' Joe Orton. This volume contains everything that Orton wrote for the theatre, radio and television from his first play in 1964, The Ruffian on the Stair, up to his violent death in 1967 at the age of 34. 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" (Observer)
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Joe Orton, The Complete Plays: The Ruffian on the Stair, Entertaining Mr. Sloan, The Good and Faithful Servant, Loot, The Erpingham Camp, Funeral Games, What the Butler Saw
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THE COMPLETE PLAYS
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The Complete Plays
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Condition: Good. book club. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 4149956-6
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THE COMPLETE PLAYS
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 448pp. Hardback with DJ, VG, BCE, The Complete Plays of Joe Orton, Includes: The Ruffian on the Stair, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Good and Faithful Servant, Loot, The Erpingham Camp, Funeral Games, What the Butler Saw, Seller Inventory # w160621270
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The Complete Plays
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Grove Weidenfeld, Grove Weidenfeld, 1990
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Complete Plays by Joe Orton. Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. 448pp. Language: English. Note: Includes dustjacket. Note: Unused or barely used with light shelfwear and minor cosmetic defects. Seller Inventory # 00028177