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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/The Ruffian on the Stair
		The Ruffian On the Stair is a play by British playwright Joe Orton and was first performed on BBC radio in August 1964.
		The next day when Joyce is left alone with her thoughts, a series of sudden, violent noises emanate from the stairs outside their apartment door and the rest of the building (including broken windows, a broken lock, and the sound of a man urinating on the floorboards).
		Ruffian is not as renowned as other works such as Loot and What the Butler Saw but is still staged on occasion.
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	Ruffian on the Stair
		You may have seen the posters for The Ruffian on the Stair - a goldfish inside a condom?
		Being Orton's first play, and least well known, it could be seen as a breeding ground for the later flly satirical writing which was to earn him the title of "the Oscar Wilde of welfare state gentry".
		Orton wrote of The Ruffian that all pauses should be natural and that "pace, pace, pace" was important.
	www.dailyinfo.co.uk /reviews/theatre/ruffian.html (430 words)

	Joe Orton
		But in the early 1960s Orton found a solo talent as a playwright, he wrote his last novel in 1961 and following the praise for a 1962 reject he finally had a work accepted.
		In 1963 the BBC paid for The Boy Hairdresser, it was broadcast in August 1964 as The Ruffian on the Stair.
		Halliwell, who had supported and loved Orton felt increasingly threatened and isolated by Orton's success and had come to rely on anti-depressants and barbiturates.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Joe_Orton.html (553 words)

	The Ruffian on the Stair & Funeral Games
		Joe Orton was a connoisseur of chaos, dubbed by the Observer 'the Oscar Wilde of the Welfare State gentility.
		The Ruffian on the Stair is a harrowing satire on the violent exterior hacking its way into calm domesticity, Funeral Games is a ghoulish capriccio about the Church and private and public personas...Some people have skeletons in the closet, others have a dead wife in the basement.
		Ruffian is a well-paced and enjoyable piece, competently directed by Alex Scrivenor.
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	Review of The Ruffian on the Stair from the theatre dance and drama in Wales web site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It is, however, a testament to the resonance of ‘The Ruffian on the Stair,’ and its mature and convincing cast, that the play communicates so well with a contemporary audience.
		Directed by Harry Durnall, ‘The Ruffian on the Stair,’ is a naturalistic piece first written and performed in 1966 and deals with, amongst other things, homosexuality at a time when gay relations were still illegal.
		Currently on tour throughout Wales and Ireland, ‘The Ruffian on the Stair,’ is a unique chance to see one of the forefathers of contemporary theatrical writing at his best.
	www.theatre-wales.co.uk /reviews/reviews_details.asp?reviewID=1298 (719 words)

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		Ruffian, Who Would Not be Defeated - Equine Heroes tribute to the filly with an overview of her races, and rare oil portraits.
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	Theatre Review: The Ruffian on the Stair: Show Business Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Ruffian on the Stair is a comedy noir, set in a rundown flat in London in 1964, where a former prostitute, Joyce (Anne Pasquate), reduced to a caricature of the disheveled and nervous housewife, and Mike (Aleks Shaklin), an arrogant self-centered petty thug, live together in quasi-matrimony.
		Ruffian has been considered a farcical satire on the normal family.
		Mistaken intention may drive the plot, but the ending is both happy and bleak and the characters are mean because they pathetic.
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	That Other Thing On My Mind & The Ruffian On The Stair
		THE RUFFIAN ON THE STAIR by Joe Orton
		Set in a council house in working class Britain, and having as it's central character the controversial and homosexual Wilson, The Ruffian on the Stair - Orton's first play, written in 1963 - can perhaps be viewed autobiographically.
		The Ruffian on the Stair is a far superior offering - a fl comedy by Joe Orton, about an almost happy couple living in almost happiness, whose semblance of normality is wrecked when a young man turns up on their doorstep asking to rent a room.
	www.rockettheatre.co.uk /p_ruffian.htm (664 words)

	The Ruffian on the Stair/Theme and Variations a CurtainUp review (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Orton's The Ruffian on the Stair, involves an older couple in 1964 London.
		Though they live together, they are unmarried, and to add further scandal, she is a former prostitute and he is a hit man for hire.
		Ruffian, being the longer piece, should at the very least be performed first.
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	Tucson Weekly : Arts : Uneven Steps
		Orton's one-act fl comedy The Ruffian on the Stair hasn't quite achieved the staying power and notoriety of Loot and What the Butler Saw, but it does seep onto the stage with some regularity.
		To their credit, director Charlie Bass (who also plays Wilson) and the cast have taken to heart Orton's admonition about staging Ruffian on the Stair: "The play is clearly not written naturalistically, but it must be directed and acted with absolute realism.
		Even more bewildering was the lighting; the house lights remained up, except during scene breaks, while the stage lights flickered only briefly to indicate the end of a scene, then came up full while the actors took their places for the next segment.
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		Between October 1966 and August 1967 he wrote Funeral Games, another play for television, and revised Ruffian on the Stair and The Erpingham Camp, produced at the Royal Court as a double bill entitled Crimes of Passion.
		When the BBC accepted the original radio version of The Ruffian on the Stair, it marked Orton's first success after nearly ten years of literary failure.
		The Ruffian on the Stair, then, marks a contrast between the past - of John Orton, the failed actor and writer - and the future - of Joe Orton, the enfant terrible of the literary world.
	members.lycos.co.uk /carlton2001/crimes/ruffian.htm (1445 words)

	Ruffian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A ruffian can be defined as a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
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		HMS Bellerophon, was also know as Billy Ruffian.
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	The Ruffian on the Stair: Reflections on Death (Rosemary Dinnage) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Ruffian on the Stair: Reflections on Death (Rosemary Dinnage) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)
		The Ruffian on the Stair: Reflections on Death (Rosemary Dinnage)
		The Ruffian on the Stair: Reflections on Death
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	Ruffian on the Stair (Thorndike Large Print General Series) by Nina Bawden, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ruffian on the Stair, The : Reflections on Death (By Rosemary Dinnage)
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		The Ruffian of the Stair : Reflections on Death
		The inn is a haunt for local ruffians, thieves and smugglers, and Maggie overhears many a dark plan hatched over ale at night.
		An outcast he travels to the planet Four; a wild planet where all the rogues and ruffians of the universe gather to plunder the mineral wealth of the vast uncharted wilderness known as Worlds End.
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	Joe Orton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1963 the BBC paid £65 for the radio play The Boy Hairdresser, broadcast on 31 August 1964, as The Ruffian on the Stair.
		It was substantially rewritten for the stage in 1966.
		He had completed Entertaining Mr Sloane by the time The Ruffian on the Stair was broadcast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_Orton (2304 words)

	Small-Cast One-Act Guide Online - Ruffian On The Stair-The-2m1f
		Apparently, Wilson's beloved brother was murdered by Mike (accidentally) and the cat-and-mouse conversation frightens Mike so much that he takes the pistol from their bedroom and fires at Wilson twice, missing him on the first shot.
		In 1967, “The Ruffian on the Stair” and “The Erpingham Camp” were performed as a double bill at the Royal Court Theatre, London, England, under the title of Crimes of Passion.
		The same tandem bill was presented on October 26, 1969, at the Off-Broadway Astor Place Theatre, New York, New York, U.S.A The title and play are based on a few lines from poet and dramatist W.E. Henley.
	www.heniford.net /4321/index.php?n=Citations-R.RuffianOnTheStair-The-2m1f (916 words)

	South Coast Repertory Play Insights - 'Entertaining Mr. Sloane'
		Within a year of Orton's release, the BBC accepted the radio version of The Ruffian on the Stair; and riding the wave of his first acceptance in a decade, he began writing his first full-length play, Entertaining Mr.
		After the BBC airing of The Ruffian on the Stair in 1963, Peggy Ramsey, one of London's shrewdest literary agents, signed Orton as a client.
		From June to December Orton writes Loot; on August 31 The Ruffian on the Stair airs on the BBC Third Programme.
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	British Bad Boy Joe Orton: Loot, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Ruffian on the Stair and What the Butler Saw
		Sloane, Ruffian on the Stair and What the Butler Saw
		Lesser known Erpingham Camp, based on The Bacchae of Euripides and the tale of Pride, is a subversive look into England's holiday camps (likely Butlins) as an institution, and what happens when order goes awry.
		Ruffian on the Stair (a less charming Mr.
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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Which is why tyrants treat it with caution”, says Joe Orton, whose 1967 double-bill - Crimes of Passion: The Ruffian on the Stair and The Erpingham Camp is now running at the Greenwich Playhouse every evening until 2nd February 2003.
		The Ruffian on the Stair is a violent cocktail of sex, lies and murder with just the right dash of humor that leaves you both disturbed and laughing at the same time.
		The Ruffian on the Stair and The Erpingham Camp
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		The story concerns a working class couple who are visited by a mysterious stranger asking for a room.
		But it quickly becomes apparent that the stranger may be seeking retribution for the death of his brother (also his lover) who was killed in a hit-and-run accident.
		As in all of Orton's plays, THE RUFFIAN ON THE STAIR examines social mores, sexuality, religion, and the English language with hilarious, yet often devastating results.
	www.profilestheatre.org /archives/ruffian.php (159 words)

	The Billy Ruffian by David Cordingly, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 158234468X
		The Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon
		David Cordingly, a leading authority on pirates and maritime history, The Billy Ruffian is the story of a real-life H.M.S. Sophie, named Bellerophon, or Billy Ruffian as her crew called her, barnacles and all.
		Under fourteen captains, she played a conspicuous part in three of the most famous of all sea battles.But her crowning glory came six weeks after the Battle of Waterloo, when Napoleon, trapped in Rochefort, surrendered to the captain of the ship that had dogged his steps for more than twenty years.
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	One Act Wonders: Actors' Theatre shakes loose the bonds of a button-down city with an evening of oversized comedy and ...
		In Ruffian, Ashley Ivey plays Wilson, a hustler who appears on the London doorstep of Joyce (Rosemary Regan) and Michael (John C. Bailey).
		Or, sort of ends in tragedy, which is one of the quirks that makes Ruffian so difficult to embrace.
		In fact, with a cast of characters built from a grab bag of B-movie stock, the players are constantly working to manage that difficult line between being incredibly funny camp and being simply bad actors.
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	AberPride :: Members
		work "The Ruffian On The Stair" is showing this weekend.
		Ruffian On The Stair" at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on Friday May 12th (8.15)
		The Ruffian On The Stair is best described as a fl farce, it lurches
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	Live! - Preview: Black Comedy and Ruffian on the Stair
		Since the beginning of term, cast and crew of DramSoc have been working hard to realise these two very different plays; which have in common only the performance dates, the crew, and the way things are not as they appear to be.
		A magic wand has been waved over the stage, and we are sent to the other side of theatre for Ruffian on the Stair, a dark drama about a hit man and his live-in girlfriend, who is blissfully unaware of his occupation.
		One day, a strange man shows up on their doorstep while the boyfriend is meeting a man in the King's Cross toilets.
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