Ebook {Epub PDF} Loot by Joe Orton

 · Joe Orton, plays, comedy, BBC-3, radio A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker.  · A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and have returned to Hal's home to hide-out with the loot/5. When Joe Orton wrote Loot, he was out to shock his audiences. One of his greatest black farces, the play centers around two amateur thieves (and suggested lovers), Dennis and Hal. Dennis works as a hearse driver for an undertaker and the pair have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlor.

Loot A Shocking Black Comedy By Joe Orton Award winning Fylde Coast Players are pleased to bring you Joe Orton's most popular play - a dark farce. Shocking but hilarious. Uproarious slapstick meets with dubious morals as two young friends stash the proceeds of a bank robbery in an occupied coffin. John Kingsley Orton (1 January - 9 August ), known under the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author and www.doorway.ru public career, from until his death in , was short but highly influential. During this brief period he shocked, outraged and amused audiences with his scandalous black www.doorway.ru adjective Ortonesque refers to work characterised by a. A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and have returned to Hal's home to hide-out with the loot. Hal's mother has just died and the pair put the money in her coffin, hiding the body elsewhere in the house.

Loot. By Joe Orton Directed by Michael Fentiman Cast includes Calvin Demba, Sam Frenchum and Sinéad Matthews. From the producers of Park Theatre sell-out hit The Boys in the Band comes another darkly comic masterpiece: Joe Orton’s classic farce Loot. Uproarious slapstick meets dubious morals as two young friends stash the proceeds of a bank robbery in an occupied coffin, attempting to hide their spoils from the attentions of a psychopathic policeman, a gold-digging nurse and a grieving. "Loot" is a British comedy based on a Joe Orton play with a dark, funny premise. Young men manage to steal money from a bank vault, attempt to hide it in a coffin that already holds a body, remove the body, and then are stuck attempting to hide both. Joe Orton writes the play, Loot. While awaiting a burial, the poor late Mrs. McLeavy is removed from her coffin so that her devious son and his crony can hide a sum of stolen money. Their mother's nurse, the often-widowed Fay, who has had overwhelmingly, seven husbands, which all have died.