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Joe Orton

May 2024

  • Joe Orton (R) with Dudley Sutton (Mr Sloane) and Madge Ryan (Kath), rehearse his play Entertaining Mr Sloane at the Wyndham Theatre, 1964.

    From the Guardian archive
    Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane reviewed – archive, 1964

    7 May 1964: Orton’s first play is a ‘milk-curdling essay in lower-middle-class nihilism’

October 2022

  • Timothy O'Brien in his studio, 2016

    Timothy O’Brien obituary

    Stage designer who worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, at the National Theatre in London and opera houses in the UK and abroad

March 2022

  • Toby Osmond and George Kemp in Diary of a Somebody.

    Diary of a Somebody review – stunning drama from Joe Orton’s journal

    The playwright’s relationship with Kenneth Halliwell is given new clarity in a play that is both hilarious and chilling

March 2021

  • Stephen Dillane as Hamlet at the Gielgud theatre, London, in 1994.

    Dan O'Brien: ‘Write in terror. Your characters should fear for their lives’

    Playwrights should be alive to the world, and that means being awake to the constant possibility of death

February 2021

  • ‘I tied my colours to their mast in a way I never had with any artist before, and never would again’ ... Adam and the Ants.

    The fandom that made me
    Adam and the Ants: how the wild tribe revealed pop's theatre of dreams

    In our series on musicians with a formative influence on our writers, Alexis Petridis on his relationship with the band for whom ridicule was nothing to be scared of

October 2018

  • Loot at Park theatre

    From Rebus to The Real Inspector Hound: theatre detectives – in pictures

    With Ian Rankin’s brooding Edinburgh tec making his stage debut at Birmingham Rep, we look back at some other theatrical sleuths

September 2018

  • Dudley Sutton as Tink in Lovejoy.

    Dudley Sutton obituary

    Veteran stage and screen actor who found fame as Tinker Dill in the BBC series Lovejoy

November 2017

  • Dark, The X Factor, Easy and Babylon Berlin

    Sound and vision
    The best TV this week: Easy is back with more sex in the city

    Joe Swanberg’s comedy anthology returns for a second series on Netflix, while BBC Two looks back on the tragically short life of playwright Joe Orton

September 2017

  • Sam Frenchum , Anah Ruddin and Calvin Demba in Loot

    How to play dead: the corpse’s view of Joe Orton’s Loot

  • Anah Ruddin (Mrs McLeavy), Sam Frenchum (Hal) and Calvin Demba (Dennis) in Loot by Joe Orton @ Park Theatre. Directed by Michael Fentiman. (Opening 23-08-17) ©Tristram Kenton 08-17 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Loot review – the farce is strong with this one

August 2017

  • Into the cupboard with her! … the corpse, now played by a real person.

    Loot review – Joe Orton's savage farce now even funnier and filthier

    From the necrophilia to the suggestion Christ was framed, the playwright’s most dangerous work – performed without the censor’s cuts for the first time – shows Orton wasn’t just out to shock
  • Joe Orton

    Kenneth Cranham on Joe Orton: the charming mischief-maker

    Kenneth Cranham was a teenager when Joe Orton cast him in a radio play and the pair became close friends. Fifty years after the great playwright’s murder, he remembers a flat full of cream cakes, 400 performances of Loot and the whitest T-shirt he ever saw

    • From the Guardian archive
      The death of Joe Orton - archive, August 1967

    • Joe Orton's play Loot to be staged uncut 50 years after being censored

    • Prick Up Your Ears review – Stephen Frears' terrific testament to murdered playwright Joe Orton

July 2017

  • Joan Didion in 1977.

    ‘Proust is the godfather of fashion’: what writers’ clothes reveal about them

    Samuel Beckett had a Gucci bag; Dorothy Parker worked for Vogue. A new book on writers’ style uncovers the hidden links between clothes and prose

April 2017

  • A Tate staff member poses for photographs next to "PC Harry Daley" by Duncan Grant, at left, and "Portrait of Pat Nelson" by Edward Wolfe during a media preview for the "Queer British Art 1861-1967" exhibition at Tate Britain in London, Monday, April 3, 2017. The show, which opens to the public on Wednesday, includes works that relate to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans queer identities and marks the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

    Rainbow flag to fly over Tate Britain to mark first queer British art show

    Tate Britain marks 50th anniversary of 1967 Sexual Offences Act with exhibition including works by Francis Bacon, Dora Carrington and David Hockney

January 2017

  • Marlene Dietrich in Knight Without Armour.

    Why Marlene Dietrich’s witty marginalia only add to her appeal

    Steven Poole
    Coleridge and Joe Orton famously scribbled in the margins of books – so the acting great is in good company

October 2016

  • Leonie Orton-Barnett photographed at home in Norfolk with the typewriter used by her brother Joe Orton

    Leonie Orton: ‘I hero-worshipped Joe, I think he knew that’

  • Laura Elsworthy in Villette at West Yorkshire Playhouse

    Theatre blog
    From sci-fi Brontë to Hamlet on the savanna: when classics are relocated

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