Joe Orton (Ordre des livres (chronologique))

Joe Orton Ordre des livres (chronologique)

1 janvier 1933 – 9 août 1967

John Orton était un dramaturge anglais dont la carrière courte mais prolifique dans les années 1960 a produit des comédies noires scandaleuses qui ont choqué, outragé et amusé le public. Son style, désormais qualifié d'« ortonesque », se caractérise par un cynisme sombre mais farsesquel qui cible la parodie des normes sociétales établies. Les pièces d'Orton explorent souvent des thèmes tels que la mort, la police, la religion et la justice à travers une lentille provocatrice et non conventionnelle. Son héritage littéraire réside dans sa capacité unique à mêler l'humour absurde à une critique sociale acerbe, laissant une marque indélébile dans le monde du théâtre.

The Methuen Drama Book of Plays from the Sixties

Roots; Serjeant Musgrave's Dance; Loot; Early Morning; The Ruling Class

540pages
19 heures de lecture

Five outstanding plays from the British theatre of the 1960s. This volume contains major works by five of the most important playwrights ot emerge during the late fifties and early sixties. Bold, challenging and iconoclastic, these plays are landmarks of post-war British theatre. Roots by Arnold Wesker focuses on the homecoming of young Beatie Bryant who returns to her family of Norfolk farm workers with stories of her boyfriend Ronnie. Serjeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden is set in a mining town in the 19th century, with a group of soldiers returned from a colonial war. But when Musgrave is asked to keep the peace with the colliery workers, he decides to do so in a rather unusual way. Loot by Joe Orton is a brilliant parody of the skeleton-in-the-cupboard crime genre, exploding the very notions of English decency, good citizenry and traditional 'positions'. Edward Bond's Early Morning re-imagines the time of Victoria and Albert caught up in a military coup plotted by Disraeli. Peter Barnes' Ruling Class describes the fall out in an aristocratic family after the 14th Earl commits suicide and leaves his estate to a schizophrenic Franciscan friar who is under the illusion that he is Jesus.