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Author : Joe Orton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780413777249
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (772 download)
Download or read book Orton Diaries written by Joe Orton and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780413736505
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (365 download)
Download or read book The Orton Diaries written by Joe Orton and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fron December 1966 to his murder in August 1967, Joe Orton kept a series of diaries that prove to be one of the most candid and unfettered accounts of that remarkable era. They chronicle his life from his literary success to his sexual escapades.
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306807336
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Orton Diaries written by Joe Orton and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1996-08-22 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ”To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature.” When Joe Orton (1933–1967) wrote those words in his diary in May 1967, he was being hailed as the greatest comic playwright since Oscar Wilde for his darkly hilarious Entertaining Mr. Sloane and the farce hit Loot, and was completing What the Butler Saw; but less than three months later, his longtime companion, Kenneth Halliwell, smashed in Orton's skull with a hammer before killing himself. The Orton Diaries, written during his last eight months, chronicle in a remarkably candid style his outrageously unfettered life: his literary success, capped by an Evening Standard Award and overtures from the Beatles; his sexual escapades—at his mother's funeral, with a dwarf in Brighton, and, extensively, in Tangiers; and the breakdown of his sixteen-year "marriage" to Halliwell, the relationship that transformed and destroyed him. Edited with a superb introduction by John Lahr, The Orton Diaries is his crowning achievement.
Author : Francesca Coppa
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815336273
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Joe Orton written by Francesca Coppa and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While writers, dramatists and film-makers have already found inspiration in Orton's colourful life story, this Casebook comprises the first collection of scholarly criticism to investigate the works, life and legacy of the controversial playwright.
Author : John Lahr
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453288759
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Prick Up Your Ears written by John Lahr and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThis mesmerizing story of playwright and author Joe Orton’s brief and remarkable life was named book of the year by Truman Capote and Nobel Prize–winning novelist Patrick White /divDIV Told with precision and extensive detail, Prick Up Your Ears is the engrossing biography of playwright and novelist Joe Orton. Orton’s public career spanned only three years (1964–1967), but his work made a lasting mark on the international stage. From Entertaining Mr. Sloane to his career-making Loot, Orton’s plays often shocked, sometimes outraged, and always captivated audiences with their dark yet farcical cynicism. A rising star and undeniable talent, Orton left much undone when he was bludgeoned to death by his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, who had educated Orton and also dreamed of becoming a famous writer. /divDIV /divDIVPrick Up Your Ears was the basis for the distinguished 1987 film of the same name, directed by Stephen Frears, with a screenplay by Alan Bennett, and starring Gary Oldman and Vanessa Redgrave. A brilliant, page-turning examination of the dueling forces behind Orton’s work, Prick Up Your Ears secured the playwright’s reputation as a great twentieth-century artist./div
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780060914981
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (149 download)
Download or read book The Orton Diaries written by Joe Orton and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472517512
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Loot written by Joe Orton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. With the arrival of Inspector Truscott, the thickened plot turns topsy-turvy. Playing with all the conventions of popular farce, Orton creates a world gone mad and examines in detail English attitudes at mid-century. The play has been called a Freudian nightmare, which sports with superstitions about death - and life. It is regularly produced in professional and amateur productions. First produced in London in 1966, Loot was hailed as "the most genuinely quick-witted, pungent and sprightly entertainment by a new, young British playwright for a decade" (Sunday Telegraph). The Student Edition offers a plot summary, full commentary, character notes and questions for study, besides a chronology and bibliography.
Author : Russell Davies
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007291922
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Kenneth Williams Letters written by Russell Davies and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the bestselling publication of THE KENNETH WILLIAMS DIARIES, the devastating self-portrait of one of our most loved and complex performers is completed with this marvellous selection of his letters. This is a wonderful treasure trove of correspondence with all manner of people, including Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith, Joe Orton, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, and the Stokers' Mess of HMS Leverton. Kenneth Williams took letters very seriously, and he was always disgusted by a morning that failed to provide him with some material to pore over. Letters called forth the performer in Williams in a way that his diaries never did: many of them are virtual comic monologues, and in general they suggest more strongly than the diaries the likeable and constructive side of a man who remains, nevertheless, as outrageous and 'difficult' as ever.
Author : John Lahr
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879101244
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Somebody written by John Lahr and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1989 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screenplay to John Lahr's successful dramatization of The Orton Diaries that chronicles the last eight months of Joe Orton's life, his growing theatrical celebrity, and the corresponding punishing effect it had on his relationship with his friend and mentor Kenneth Halliwell, who murdered him on August 9, 1967, and then took his own life.
Author : Joe Orton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472536665
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book What The Butler Saw written by Joe Orton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature" (Sunday Telegraph) The chase is on in this breakneck comedy of licensed insanity, from the moment when Dr Prentice, a psychoanalyst interviewing a prospective secretary, instructs her to undress. The plot of What the Butler Saw contains enough twists and turns, mishaps and changes of fortune, coincidences and lunatic logic to furnish three or four conventional comedies. But however the six characters in search of a plot lose the thread of the action - their wits or their clothes - their verbal self-possession never deserts them. Hailed as a modern comedy every bit as good as Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Orton's play is regularly produced, read and studied. What the Butler Saw was Orton's final play."He is the Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility" (Observer)
Author : Kenneth Tynan
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780747558415
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (584 download)
Download or read book The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan written by Kenneth Tynan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the publishing sensations of the year' Daily Telegraph..'Packed with scandal and salacious anecdotes about his famous friends and, believe me, it is premier-cru gossip' Tatler
Author : Mick Foley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847395910
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Hardcore Diaries written by Mick Foley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it feel like to fall through a flaming table for the very first time? Or the umpteenth time for that matter. In the fresh off-the-cuff style that has earned him legions of admirers and made his previous wrestling books massive worldwide bestsellers, Foley gives readers a blow-by-blow first-hand account of exactly what it is like to step into the wrestling ring. As a champion wrestler he was known both for his tenacity in the ring and for the fearlessness which led him to take extraordinary risks in any number of groundbreaking dangerous stunts. And as an industry insider he offers a unique perspective on what it was like to perform at that level which readers will never find anywhere else. In HARDCORE DIARIES Mick Foley will take fans right inside a hardcore match, vividly recreating his experiences, and revealing how mentally and physically preparing for this extremely challenging sport has helped him become the legend he is today.
Author : Anna Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000155544
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Diary Poetics written by Anna Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writer’s thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diarist’s true self. Focusing on the diaries of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Joe Orton, John Cheever, and Sylvia Plath, this book looks at how six very different professional writers have approached the diary form with its particular demands and literary potential. As a sequence of separate entries the diary is made up of both gaps and continuities, and the different ways diarists negotiate these aspects of the diary form has radical effects on how their diaries represent both the world and the biographical self. The different published editions of the diaries by Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath show how editorial decisions can construct sometimes startlingly different biographical portraits. Yet all diaries are constructed, and all diary constructions depend on how the writer works with the diary form.
Author : Tracey West
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101570369
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Cena & Orton: Rivalry in the Ring written by Tracey West and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 8x8 storybook, young fans can read all about one of WWE's biggest rivalries. John Cena and Randy Orton are two of the most popular "good guys" who never stop trying to defeat each other. How did they become archenemies? What were the biggest moments in this rivalry?
Author : Irene Taylor
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1838852921
Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (388 download)
Download or read book The Assassin's Cloak written by Irene Taylor and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The Assassin's Cloak gathers together some of the most entertaining and inspiring entries for each day of the year, as writers ranging from Queen Victoria to Andy Warhol, Samuel Pepys to Adrian Mole, pen their musings on the historic and the mundane. Spanning centuries and international in scope, this peerless anthology pays tribute to a genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms. This new updated edition is published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the book's original publication.
Author : John Lahr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520233775
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Show and Tell written by John Lahr and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What a talented, wonderful, and complete writer."--Mel Brooks "By far the best thing about my stuff I've ever read."--Arthur Miller "These are wonderful portraits."--Edna O'Brien "The high-water mark of theatrical reportage. Exhilarating! Smart! Lahr gives as much thunderous pleasure as the great entertainers he writes about."--Richard Avedon "There's never been an American critic like John Lahr. His writing exalts, honors, and dignifies the profession and, more importantly, the art."--Tony Kushner
Author : Mark Lilly
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814750818
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Gay Men's Literature in the Twentieth Century written by Mark Lilly and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1993-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In gay men's writing, tenderness lies side by side with rage; existential rejection of convention rubs shoulders with sexual hedonism. Beginning with Wilde's and Byron's existentialist outlaw, the theme of social rebellion, and the fight against conformity, form a common link among the literary works of the twentieth century. But mainstream academic criticism has shown itself for the most part incapable of engaging gay work without distorting or ignoring its most central features.
