Who was afraid of Joe Orton?
1990; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/09502369008582089
ISSN1470-1308
Autores Tópico(s)Gender Politics and Representation
ResumoJoe Orton went to study at the Royal Academy for Dramatic Art in 1951, in the heyday of Terence Rattigan, Whitehall farces, religious versedram a and Agatha Christie. The Wolfenden Report on homosexuality was still six years away, and the film Victim ten. Theatre was often ‘queer’, but it was always discreet. In the late 1950s, Orton showed no interest in the socially and politically aware plays of Osborne, Delaney, and Wesker, though they accompanied and contributed to a great increase in public discussion of homosexuality — by 1958 the Lord Chamberlain, the Crown official whose task it was to censor stage plays, was obliged to allow serious treatm ent of the topic. Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell were conducting a more distinctive and anarchic cultural criti que by redesigning the covers of library books.3
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