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★★★★ | Loot The late playwright Joe Orton wrote Loot more than 50 years ago, and it is now being…
University of Leicester academic co-curates special exhibition on Joe Orton The new National Justice Museum launches its first crowdfunding campaign…
Crimes Of Passion Broadcaster: BBC Radio 3 Broadcast Date: TBC Crimes of Passion, a double-bill of Joe Orton plays (The…
★★★★ | Orton, Above The Stag One of the great things about London is that you don’t have to go…
What better place to see a play by the irreverent gay 1960s playwright, Joe Orton, than in Leicester?
It is the swinging 1960s and charismatic young Mr. Sloane is looking for a place to live.
Up and At Em: Death in the Sex of Joe Orton
By Leon HortonLondon, 9 August 1967. At the height of his short-lived fame, Joe Orton – anarchic playwright and cause célèbre of the English theatre – is found murdered at 25 Noel Road, Islington, his brains bashed in by his long-term lover and one-time collaborator Kenneth Halliwell.