What the Butler Saw - Joe Orton

What the Butler Saw is definitely the pinnacle of Joe Orton's humour; it was the last play before he was brutally murdered one year later in 1970. The storyline is far too difficult to explain, but in very vague summary, it concerns a series of mistaken identities and one-liners that happen in a psychiatrist's office when an adulterous seedy affair with his potential secretary goes horribly wrong. The story begins with a traditional back drop with ...
...however the introduction of more characters and complications means the plot gets thicker and at points hard to follow but it also becomes more humorous by the minute. The farce becomes more and more riotously funny that will leave your sides hurting, and twist follows twist until the climactic end that makes a mockery of the obligatory resolution that occurs at the end of normal farces. Throughout the story, the comedy becomes darker and more sinister, ...

wonder1607 29.03.2006 · Read full review
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