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Entertaining Mr Sloane

Joe Orton author Dr Emma Parker editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:22nd May '14

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An anniversary edition of Entertaining Mr Sloane with a new critical introduction, which offers an opportunity to reappraise both Orton’s reputation as a playwright and the status of his play, plus a selection of previously unpublished photographs from the Orton archive.

Published fifty years after the premiere of Entertaining Mr Sloane in 1964, and with a new introduction, this anniversary edition offers an opportunity to reappraise Joe Orton’s reputation, and the status of his first major play, from a twenty-first century perspective. When it first appeared in the Swinging Sixties, Orton’s satire on social and sexual hypocrisy both scandalized and delighted audiences. Its mix of sexuality and violence was explosive. Within a year, the play was being performed around the world and went on to be adapted for film and television, establishing Orton as a major voice and this play as one of the most ground-breaking of the century. This anniversary edition features previously unpublished material from the Joe Orton Archive, an interview with director Nick Bagnall, and an introduction by Emma Parker, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester.

Entertaining Mr Sloane retains its power to provoke and startle. * Telegraph *
Unlike many scandals, both Entertaining Mr Sloane and its protagonist reach their majority with impact undiminished . . . Mr Sloane has moved with the times. * Financial Times *

ISBN: 9781472527974

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 150g

144 pages