1993­

What the Butler Saw

by Joe Orton

State Theatre Company

Playhouse

Joe Orton’s plays are not everybody’s cup of tee hee. There is humour that confirms our sense of the world and there is humour which unsettles it and Orton is definitely the latter. His comedy, all elliptical word play and glassy epigrams, has the mannered artificiality of Wilde. But unlike Oscar, Orton is not endearing.  His is pitiless, unlikeable comedy and when he makes you laugh it often …

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