Loot: Methuen Student Edition (Student Editions) - Softcover

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Orton, Joe

 
9780413567604: Loot: Methuen Student Edition (Student Editions)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0413567605 ISBN 13: 9780413567604
Verlag: Methuen Drama, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joe Orton was born in Leicester in 1933. He
joined RADA in 1951, where he met his mentor and lover Kenneth
Halliwell. Living on the dole (and briefly in prison, for defacing
library books) the two collaborated on novels, though Orton's solo
writing brought him more fame. His openly gay lifestyle has turned him
into an iconic figure. He was murdered by Halliwell in 1967.

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Verlag
Methuen Drama
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0413567605
ISBN 13 
9780413567604
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
144
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