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Loot is a two-act play by the English playwright Joe Orton. The play is a dark farce that satirises the Roman Catholic Church, social attitudes to death, and the integrity of the police force. [1] Loot was Orton's third major production, following Entertaining Mr Sloane and the television play The Good and Faithful Servant. Playing with the ...
When Joe Orton wrote Loot, he was out to shock his audiences. One of his greatest black farces, the play centers around two amateur thieves (and suggested lovers), Dennis and Hal. Dennis works as a hearse driver for an undertaker and the pair have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlor.
Loot is a play written by British playwright Joe Orton, and is meant to satirize conventional society, especially the Catholic Church and police forces. The play begins when two...
Loot is a two-act play by the English playwright Joe Orton. The play is a dark farce that satirises the Roman Catholic Church, social attitudes to death, and the integrity of the police force.
His three full-length plays, Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1964), Loot (1965), and What the Butler Saw (produced posthumously, 1969), were outrageous and unconventional black comedies that scandalized audiences with their examination of moral corruption, violence, and sexual rapacity.
1 lis 2020 · Joe Orton’s play Loot is best classified under the genre of farce. In this work, Orton pokes fun at the establishment in general but takes particular aim at Catholicism and the police force. The action of the play revolves around two main events: the recent death of Mrs McLeavy and the robbery of a bank next to an undertaker’s premises.
Joe Orton’s identity as a gay working-class playwright is reflected in his work, Loot. The story is of a sum of money that is stolen from a bank by Dennis and Hal. Dennis and Hal must protect...