Joe Orton

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Joe Orton (born January 1, 1933 in Leicester , † August 9, 1967 in London ) was a British playwright .

Life

Orton came from the working class. From 1950 to 1953 he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Among other things, he made his living as a nude model. In 1963, he and his partner Kenneth Halliwell were serving a prison sentence for stealing library property and defiling it with profanity.

Before his international success in the theater, Orton had written short stories without achieving publications during his lifetime. In the early years Halliwell was a kind of teacher for Orton, who had only a very superficial education, and helped him develop his writing style, which would later be called "Ortonesque".

Halliwell could not bear the sole success of his life partner. In a suicide note, Halliwell also referred to the last section of Orton's diary, in which he describes a variety of sexual adventures. Halliwell killed Orton on August 9, 1967 with nine hammer blows and took his life with pills. Both were found the next day by a chauffeur who was supposed to take Orton to a meeting with the Beatles , for whom he had written a script. Halliwell and Orton were in the Golders Green Crematorium in London cremated , where her ashes is located.

Orton, who often broke the taboos of the time in his few plays, only wrote for the theater for a period of three years.

Stephen Frears filmed the life of Joe Orton in 1987 under the title The stormy life of Joe Orton (English Prick Up Your Ears ) with Gary Oldman in the role of Joe Orton and Alfred Molina as Halliwell. The film is based on the biography of the same name by John Lahr.

Works

Dramas

  • Premiere 1964: Be nice to Mr. Sloane ( Entertaining Mr. Sloane , West End , filmed in 1969 under the same title)
  • Premiere 1965: Beute ( Loot , West End, filmed in 1969 as The biggest crooks far and wide , OT Loot )
  • Premiere 1966: The Erpingham Camp
  • Premiere 1967: The Good and Faithful Servant
  • Premiere 1968: Funeral Games
  • Premiere 1969: What the Butler Saw ( Queen's Theater , West End)
  • 1964: The Ruffian on the Stair (radio broadcast)
  • 2001: Fred and Madge (written 1959, published 2001, not yet listed)
  • 2001: The Visitors (written in 1961, published in 2001, not yet listed)

Scripts

  • Up against it (not implemented)
  • 1967: The Good and Faithful Servant (TV film, modification of his play of the same name)
  • 1968: Funeral Games (TV film, modification of his play of the same name)

Novels

All novels were published posthumously.

  • 1971: Head to Toe
  • 1999: Lord Cucumber (written with Halliwell)
  • 1999: The Boy Hairdresser (written with Halliwell)
  • 2001: Between Us Girls

Diaries

  • The Orton Diaries ( Ed .: John Lahr)

literature

  • Joe Orton: The Complete Plays . London, Methuen, 1976, ISBN 0-413-34610-2 .
  • Joe Orton: The Orton Diaries . London, Methuen, 1986, Ed. John Lahr
  • Joe Orton: The diaries . Aachen, Rimbaud, 1995, Ed. John Lahr, ISBN 3-89086-889-4
  • Joe Orton: Diary Tangier May - June 1967 . Aachen, Rimbaud, 1999, ISBN 3-89086-797-9
  • John Lahr: Prick up your ears . John Lahr, 1978. ISBN 0-7475-6014-5
  • John Lahr: Keep your ears stiff . Hamburg, Lambda, 1987, ISBN 3-925495-16-9

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Joe Orton, John Lahr: The Complete Plays: The Ruffian on the Stair, Entertaining Mr. Sloan, The Good and Faithful Servant, Loot, The Erpingham Camp, Funeral Games, What the Butler Saw . Grove Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-802-13215-4 , pp. 13, 14. (English)
  2. ↑ Simon Shepard: Because We're Queers. The Life and Crimes of Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton . GMP, London 1989, ISBN 0-854-49090-6 , p. 88. (English)
  3. ↑ Hardenberg Acting Guide . Dortmund. Hardenberg Publishing House. 1997, Personal Article on Orton
  4. ↑ Francesca Coppa: Joe Orton. A casebook . Routledge, London 2002, ISBN 0-815-33627-6 , p. 2. (English)
  5. ↑ Axel Schock : Ashes to Ashes (Last Places IV). December 2, 2016, accessed on March 2, 2019 (German).
  6. ^ The Stormy Life of Joe Orton in the International Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093776/
  7. ^ John Lahr: Prick Up Your Ears. The Biography of Joe Orton . University of California Press, Berkeley 2000, ISBN 0-520-22666-6 , p. 33. (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Orton, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British playwright
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Leicester
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1967
Place of death London