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Funeral Games

Short Play, Drama  /  1f, 4m

Joe Orton

Funeral Games
by Joe Orton

"Orton could turn the audience's gasp into a laugh, translating horror into humor, and leaving the viewers curiously aware of the simultaneous reaction. This is no mean talent."- Guardian.

Funeral Games

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1f, 4m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Mystery/Thriller

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Summary
A play more outrageous, if possible, than Loot and as cracklingly witty. "One imagines Orton, although dealing with bogus religion, a severed hand and a corpse in the cellar, had, like Wilde, only gaiety as a motive ...
  • Time Period Contemporary

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Joe Orton

Joe Orton
Joe Orton (1933 – 1967) was born John Kingsley Orton in Leicester and from the age of two, lived on the Saffron Lane council estate. After winning a scholarship to RADA in 1951, he met Kenneth Halliwell, an actor and writer seven years his senior. Halliwell would become Orton ...
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