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Thema: Joe Orton

Joe Orton
(* 1. Januar 1933; ? 9. August 1967) war ein schwuler britischer Dramatiker.
Joe Orton schrieb international erfolgreiche Theaterstücke; sein Lebensgefährte Kenneth Halliwell ertrug offenbar den allein Joe Orton zugerechneten Erfolg nicht und ermordete ihn und nahm sich selbst am gleichen Tag das Leben.

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Josh Shoemake: Tangier

Josh Shoemake: Tangier

A Literary Guide for Travellers. UK/USA 2013, 286 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 29.95
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An edge city, overlooking both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape, and the »Interzone«, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts and writers for centuries - men and women working out at the edge of literary forms, breaking through artistic borders. This outlaw originality is what most astonishes ... Weiterlesen

John Lahr: The Orton Diaries

John Lahr: The Orton Diaries

UK 1996, 306 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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»To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature.« When Joe Orton (1933-1967) wrote those words in his diary in May 1967, he was being hailed as the greatest comic playwright since Oscar Wilde for his darkly hilarious »Entertaining Mr. Sloane« and the farce hit »Loot«, and was completing »What the Butler Saw«; but ... Weiterlesen

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UK 1983, OF, engl. UT, 105 Min., € 19.99
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Orton was one of the 1960s golden gay boys, from working class Leicester lad to national celebrity, from sexual innocent to grinning satyr, from penniless student to icon of Swinging London. He became a star by breaking the rules - sexual and theatrical. But while his plays including »Loot«, »What the Butler Saw« and »Entertaining Mr. Sloane« were hugely successful, ... Weiterlesen

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