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Entertaining Mr Sloane, by Joe Orton

Presented by: Brighton Little Theatre


0 BRIGHTON: Little Theatre (info)
P Tuesday 14th October, 2008 to Saturday 18th October, 2008
(14th to 20th October 2008)
N Door time: 7:00pm
. See event info or ticket types for age restrictions
C Theatre
> https://www.the-little.co.uk

Event information

With its heady cocktail of oedipal sex, abuse of the elderly and bisexual liaisons, Joe Orton's first play, Entertaining Mr Sloane, caused considerable scandal on its premiere back in 1964. In the ensuing years it has become a standard of British theatre, and has certainly retained its ability to shock and entertain.

Notions of morality have certainly changed considerably in the forty or so years since Orton's play premiered - yet in his brilliant writing audiencesare still today shocked by his graphic bisexual liaisons, a middle-aged woman having an affair with a twentysomething man, and even murder - the human ability to dissemble and manipulate still has the power to disturb.

This is probably Orton at his best - way ahead of his time. A powerful black comedy - not to be missed.

Starts at 7:45pm

Venue information

Brighton: Little Theatre
0 9 Clarence Gardens
Brighton
BN1 2EG
> www.the-little.co.uk
! 08448 880432