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	Joe Orton
		Joe Orton (January 1, 1933 - August 9, 1967) was a satirical modern playwright.
		Orton met Kenneth Halliwell at RADA in 1951, moving into a shared apartment with him and three other students in June.
		Orton's career was cut short when he was furiously beaten to death by Halliwell with a hammer, who immediately afterward committed suicide using Nembutal.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Joe_Orton.html (553 words)

	Entertaining Mr. Sloane by Joe Orton
		Orton was born John Kingsley Orton in Leicester in 1933.
		Orton was convinced that the two of them had been targeted for prosecution because of their homosexuality.
		Presumably Mrs Orton, Joe’s mother, would have been pleased to know that her false teeth had been appropriated from the family home by her son at her funeral and presented to the cast of Loot to use as a prop.
	activatedimage.com /sloane/orton.html (935 words)

	Joe Orton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joe Orton (born John Kingsley Orton 1 January 1933, Leicester, England – 9 August 1967, Islington, London) was a satirical modern playwright.
		Orton was born in Leicester to a working class family, and grew up on the Saffron Lane council estate with a younger brother, Douglas, and two younger sisters, Marilyn, and Leonie.
		Orton coined the term as an allusion to Terence Rattigan's "Aunt Edna", Rattigan's archetypal playgoer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_Orton (2291 words)

	joe orton
		Anyway Joe Orton was the queen of the double entendre during those years when his sexuality was illegal and heterosexuals didn’t talk about “those kind of things” either.
		Joe and Kenneth had been utterly devoted to eachother for 10 years until the local library finally got sick of them defacing books and adding rude verses to book jackets.
		Whatever the views of the moral majority Joe Orton came, he saw and he went (maybe wrong choice of wording!) His life had become just like one of his plays when, after Kenneth killed him, he realised he should have used a recent award Joe had received to batter him.
	www.angelfire.com /zine2/alienated/joeorton.html (754 words)

	Roundabout Theatre Company - Front & Center Online
		Orton would, in fact, later ransack their novels for ideas and put them into his stage plays, which Halliwell, as Orton's dramaturg and co-conspirator, helped shape and whose punning titles he frequently supplied.
		Critical assessments of Orton's works by gay scholars and historians, on the other hand, are similarly slanted; they attack the absence of positive gay role models or the lack of a utopian vision of the homosexual—as if Orton would ever have been interested in winning an award from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
		Orton's revolution was that he deliberately upset the metaphysical dramas that both straight and gay dramatists liked to play on audiences by blatantly infusing them with an explicit homoerotic charge.
	www.roundabouttheatre.org /fc/winter06/orton.htm (2468 words)

	D2 Press- Cool Dead People - Joe Orton by Suzanne Nielsen
		Orton was rejected by the literary world for a long time before one of his masterpieces was finally noticed as such.
		Orton believed that his stint in jail is what brought him his most self-learned advancement with the literary arts.
		Orton had gone from being angry at the critics of the world to truly believing his own words when he said that, "Words were more effective than actions; in the right hands verbs and nouns could create panic," because panic is what he created among the meek, all the while inheriting the Earth.
	www.doubledarepress.com /2002/08/columns/dead-people.shtml (1343 words)

	Joe Orton (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		'''Joe Orton''' (January 1, 1933, Leicester, England - August 9, 1967, Islington, London) was a satirical modern playwright.
		He was born John Kingsley Orton in Leicester to a poor working class family and grew up on the Saffron Lane council estate with a brother and two sisters.
		Orton met Kenneth Halliwell at RADA in 1951, moving into a flat with him and three other students in June.
	joe-orton.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (725 words)

	Joe Orton, playwright
		This term not only defines the works of Joe Orton, but it acts as a description for both the life and death of this playwright.
		He was born John Kingsley Orton on January 1, 1933 to a working class couple in Leicester, England.
		In the midst of his fame, Orton also wrote a screenplay for the Beatles called Up Against It, but it was rejected.
	www.queens-theatre.co.uk /biographies/joeorton.htm (436 words)

	Loot; Joe Orton
		This paradox gives his farce a bite”, and Orton himself, who appeared in Ears saying: "There's supposed to be a healthy shock at those moments in Loot when an audience suddenly stops laughing.
		In fact, when his mother died, Orton did not hesitate in removing her teeth, taking them to the performance of Loot and giving them to one of the actors.
		If his life is examined carefully, one may realizes that it could have something to do: the way he treated his lover and couple, Halliwell, the way he behaved towards his mother death, the problem the couple had with justice because of the photographs in the books they borrowed from a library.
	html.rincondelvago.com /loot_joe-orton.html (1381 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Orton, Joe
		John Kingsley Orton was born in Leicester, England, on January 1, 1933, the son of William and Elsie Orton.
		As Orton became a famous, though controversial, figure in London theatrical circles, Halliwell grew increasingly alienated and distraught, largely as a result of the continuing rejection he faced as both a writer and a visual artist and of his poor self-image as an older, heavier, and balding companion to the boyish Orton.
		But Orton is important not only for his role in queer theater, but also as perhaps the finest writer of farce in the twentieth century.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/orton_j.html (1150 words)

	Arden Theatre Company \| Loot \| Playwright Joe Orton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Prior to jail Orton had been a frustrated artist, leaving his patchy acting career to co-write novels with his lover and companion Kenneth Halliwell.
		Orton's work has all the puns, parody and subversion of Coward, all the social exploration of Shaw and all the witty incisiveness of Wilde.
		Halliwell, who had always seen himself as a mentor to a prodigious but inexperienced Orton, was now feeling vestigial and increasingly mentally ill. One evening in 1967, Halliwell bashed Orton's skull in with a hammer and then killed himself with an overdose of sleeping pills.
	www.ardentheatre.org /2006/loot_orton.html (759 words)

	Joe Orton Biography
		Joe Orton was born John Kingsley Orton on January 1, 1933, into a working class family in Leicester, England.
		Orton's father earned little as a gardener for the city, and his mother's extravagant taste ensured that the family was almost always in debt.
		Orton's parents fought continually, and there was little affection within the family; writing in his adolescent journal, Orton always put the word "family’’ in quotation marks.
	www.enotes.com /what-butler/18766 (153 words)

	Knitting Circle Joe Orton (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Joe Orton was 18 when he first met his lover Kenneth Halliwell who was then 25.
		After his death an "Orton industry" developed, and was particularly stimulated in 1978 by John Lahr's biography of Joe Orton.
		Joe Orton was listed at number 32 in the top 500 lesbian and gay heroes in The Pink Paper, 26th.
	www.knittingcircle.org.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /joeorton.html (3009 words)

	Joe Orton
		Lahr chronicles Orton's working-class childhood and stage struck adolescence, the scandals and disasters of his early professional years, and the brief, glittering success of his blistering comedies, Entertaining Mr.
		August 1967 Halliwell bashed in Orton's skull with a hammer in their flat, and then killed himself with an overdose of twenty-two Nembutal sleeping pills washed down with the juice from a tin of grapefruit.
		Although Joe Orton lived in Noel Road for eight years, any affection he had for the area was confined to "a little pissoir" in Holloway Road.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/o/orton_joe.htm (666 words)

	Arden Theatre Company Presents LOOT by Joe Orton, directed by Douglas C. Wager, September 8 - October 30, 2005
		Joe Orton, playwright and novelist, was born in Leicester and attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
		Originally an unsuccessful actor, Orton turned to writing where he experienced his first success in 1964 when his radio play The Ruffian on the Stair was broadcast by the BBC.
		At the age of 34 and the pinnacle of his career, Orton was bludgeoned to death by his lifelong companion, Kenneth Halliwell in August 1967.
	www.theatrealliance.org /news/2005/0816a.html (678 words)

	The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: Fast, furious farce - Christie Davies reports on Joe Orton's What the Butler ...
		What the Butler Saw was Joe Orton's last play written in 1967, the same year that he was murdered by his homosexual lover and cohabitee, Kenneth Halliwell.
		Their relationship ended when Halliwell smashed Orton's head in with a hammer while Orton was in bed and then took a huge overdose of sleeping pills.
		Orton's quick and unexpected repartee and paradoxes are as alive as Oscar Wilde's.
	www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000583.php (1128 words)

	Untitled Document
		This term not only defines the works of Joe Orton, but it acts as a description for both the life and death of this British playwright.
		Orton was an hedonistic, anarchic homosexual with a priceless sense of humour, albeit fl with a wit mordant.
		Halliwell's influence notwithstanding, Orton's style is unique, inimitable: a kind of dumb insolence out-loud, elegantly incisive, bordering, at times, on the poetic.
	www.summercircle.org /orton.html (1225 words)

	Why I adore Joe Orton \| Review \| The Observer
		These facts, and the salacious nature of Orton's material, have blinded us to what a superior craftsman he is. He deserves to be regarded as the worthy successor to Oscar Wilde.
		Orton choreographs the action to build in and out of the room, as characters frantically chase and evade each other, to a moment where the whole play looks as if it will fall off its axis.
		Orton said to Kenneth Williams: 'You must do whatever you like as long as you enjoy it and don't hurt anyone else,' and this mantra informed his life and work.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1524890,00.html (893 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Todd Rundgren/Joe Jackson
		Orton, who wrote the script for the Fab Four in 1966, was at the time one of the most popular writers on the London scene.
		The Beatles rejected his initial draft, manager Brian Epstein telling Orton that it wasn't "suitable." Orton agreed to do a rewrite, and a chauffeur was sent to pick the playwright up for a meeting with the band.
		Inside the apartment, Orton lay dead on his bed, bludgeoned in the head with a hammer by his lover Kenneth Halliwell, who was slumped at his desk, the victim of a pill overdose.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/05.18.05/rundgren-jackson-0520.html (954 words)

	Joe Orton's plays
		Exception was taken to "Mr Orton's repetitive and nasty sense of humour".
		The play, although advertised as on a pre-west end tour, was withdrawn after six weeks of indifferent or hostile notices in the provincial press.
		ORTON has finished the first draft of a third full length stage play and a short play "Funeral Games" which is awaiting production.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/parade/abj76/PG/pieces/joe_orton_plays.shtml (584 words)

	Beatles Reference Library - Joe Orton
		The complete story is detailed in the Roy Car book that John referred to (Chapter 15: Joe Orton's 'Up Against It') and also, in Orton's own words, in "The Orton Diaries," edited by John Lahr, his biographer.
		The script that is described in the Mojo piece (and the Roy Carr book) is an earlier effort than Orton's "Up Against It," but it was sent to Orton by Walter Shenson in January 1967 to give him an idea of what they were considering.
		Orton was a hot young property in the London theater world at the time, and particularly now that the Beatles were in an experimental art phase, of sorts, Epstein thought he might be the perfect author for the third film.
	www.beatlesagain.com /breflib/joeorton.html (460 words)

	Joe Orton
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		Joe Orton was listed at number 32 in the top 500 lesbian and gay heroes in
		Joe Orton is the funniest satirist in the British theatre.
	www.drama21c.net /newadds/mainorton1.htm (2337 words)

	Orton Diaries PB by Joe Orton and John Lahr : Booksamillion.com (0306807335, Paperback)
		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 Orton's skull in with a hammer before killing himself.
		Edited with a superb introduction by John Lahr, The Orton Diaries is his crowning achievement.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?isbn=0306807335 (140 words)

	Joe Orton
		Met boyfriend Kenneth Halliwell at RADA in 1951; soon they moved in together with Orton writing the occasional play.
		In 1962 the two were charged with altering library books in an unsavory and pornographic manner, serving six months in jail.
		Halliwell ended up bashing Orton's brains in with a hammer before committing suicide via barbiturate overdose in 1967.
	www.nndb.com /people/247/000085989 (84 words)

	What the Butler Saw Study Guide by Joe Orton: Further Reading
		This is the most complete biography of Orton, featuring information on his life as well as his work.
		Lahr's work on the relationship between Orton and Halliwell was adapted to make the 1987 film on Orton's life, Prick up Your Ears.
		In this study of Orton's work, Shepherd maintains that "the Orton industry," as he calls it, reflects society's prejudice against gays.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-whatbutlersaw/further.html (223 words)

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