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Joe Orton, | 112 pages | 23 Aug 2001 | Publishing PLC | 9780413413406 | English | London, United Kingdom Entertaining Mr Sloane (film) - Wikipedia

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Entertaining Mr. This exalted stature is now supported largely by two additional full-length plays— Lootand Entertaining Mr Sloane the Butler Saw produced posthumously in —and to a lesser extent by four one-act plays originally written for radio and television. Sloane also enjoyed a German production and was soon slated for a film adaptation. Clearly influenced in his earliest work by fellow British dramatist, The HomecomingOrton gradually forged a distinct comic style that distanced his work from Pinter. As critics still speak of certain plays as Pinteresque, they now also refer to a farce that turns grotesque, explicitly sexual, and purposefully shocking as Ortonesque. The son of working-class parents—his father a gardener and his mother a factory worker—Orton was raised in a stable but emotionally barren and conventional middle-class suburban environment. His defiant homosexuality, unhappy home life, and emotionally distant relationship with his parents finally came together in the mids to produce an iconoclastic comic style that emerged in his Entertaining Mr Sloane produced comedy-farce, Entertaining Mr. Intent in this and all subsequent plays on questioning middle-class values, Orton specialized in suggesting that unconventional passions existed beneath conventional middle-class behavior and language. There Orton met , his Entertaining Mr Sloane lover and sometime collaborator. After Orton graduated from RADA inhe worked briefly as an actor in repertory theatre and then joined Halliwell in virtual poverty as the two lived together and worked jointly on a number of bizarre, unpublished novels. It was under Entertaining Mr Sloane guidance of the older and more sophisticated Halliwell that Orton discovered his interest in writing. Inhowever, Halliwell and Orton were imprisoned for six months for stealing and defacing dozens of books from a suburban London library. The two pranksters would alter the books, often with comically obscene illustrations, Entertaining Mr Sloane then haunt the library to observe the reactions of browsing patrons. His personal relationship Entertaining Mr Sloane Halliwell deteriorated steadily as Entertaining Mr. Within three years his play became an enormous success, several one-act plays written for television bolstered and widened his reputation, and What the Butler Saw produced in was completed in manuscript. On the night of August 9,as Orton Entertaining Mr Sloane, Halliwell bludgeoned him to death with nine blows from a hammer. Halliwell then took his own life with an overdose of sleeping pills. Sloane begins with a dowdy, forty-ish woman named Kath showing Entertaining Mr Sloane middle-class home to a prospective lodger, a street-wise and coarse twenty-year-old boy named Sloane whom she had met that afternoon in the public library. Kath almost immediately hints to Sloane that she is willing to have sex with him and reveals Entertaining Mr Sloane she once had a young son out of wedlock whom she gave up for adoption. Sloane agrees to take a room in the house, revealing that he was himself brought up in an orphanage. While Kath is in the kitchen, Kemp talks with Sloane and toasts crumpets small cakes over the electric logs in the fireplace. Kemp then stabs Sloane in the leg with the toasting fork. She somewhat coyly attempts to seduce Sloane. Ed does not live in the same house with Kath and their father, but before his entrance he overheard the talk of the new tenant and now forbids Kath to take in Sloane. Ed already suspects the possibility of sexual relations between Kath and the new lodger Entertaining Mr Sloane asserts that rumors of such behavior would hurt his reputation and livelihood. Ed insists on meeting Sloane. When he does, Ed is immediately attracted to Sloane himself. The homosexual Ed dismisses Kath, interviews Sloane, and offers him a job as his personal chauffeur. Ed leaves, and Kath is Entertaining Mr Sloane alone with Sloane, who has re-entered from the kitchen. Kath quickly seduces the willing Sloane on the living room sofa as the first act ends. One morning, six months later, Kath enters from a shopping trip to find Sloane lying on the sofa wearing boots, leather trousers, and a white T-shirt. Sloane explains that he is resting while Eddie works on the car because Sloane has a hangover from a late night out with three of his male friends. While Kemp babbles, Kath whispers to Sloane that she is pregnant. After Entertaining Mr Sloane leaves Sloane refuses to marry her. But to mollify Kath, Sloane turns over to her, as a token of his respect, a locket his mother had given him. When Entertaining Mr Sloane re-enters, Ed traps him into admitting he was with a woman the night before. He counsels Sloane on the untrustworthiness of females. Sloane agrees to move out of the house and go with Ed once Sloane receives sufficient financial incentives. Sloane claims that Kath threw herself at him. Sloane seems penitent, and Ed decides to forgive him if Sloane will promise to avoid women in the future. Before he leaves, Ed sides with Sloane against Kemp. When Kemp threatens to go to the police, Sloane knocks the old man down behind the sofa and kicks him. When Ed returns, he reports that Kemp is dead. Ed revels in his new position of power. Ed convinces Kath that Kemp had been ill and coaches her about what she should say when the doctor arrives. But when Sloane enters with his Entertaining Mr Sloane, Ed explains that Sloane is coming to live with him. Kath reveals her pregnancy and is shocked when she hears that Sloane has accused her of seducing him. When Sloane is asked to choose between the two, he chooses to leave with Ed, claiming never to have cared for Kath. Ed cruelly forces Kath to look at herself in the mirror. Faced with blackmail on both sides, Sloane slaps Kath and threatens her physically. Then Ed comes up with the idea of sharing Sloane, living with Sloane by himself six months of the year and then permitting Sloane to live six months with Kath. Kath will say that Kemp fell downstairs and Kath and Ed will exchange the Entertaining Mr Sloane that Sloane gave her whenever they trade Sloane. Entertaining Mr Sloane play ends with Ed announcing that it has been Entertaining Mr Sloane pleasant morning and with Kath sitting on the sofa eating a piece of candy. When Kemp is accidentally killed by Sloane at the. Of all the characters, Ed asserts the most hypocritical concern for high moral values. Kath then becomes pregnant by Sloane, just as she did by Tommy. Starved for affection, Entertaining Mr Sloane but determined to put on a coy demeanor, Kath refuses to see herself as she really is, pretending to be young, innocent, and respectable. Superficially comical, Kath is Entertaining Mr Sloane, deep down, quite as cruel, vicious, and heartless as her brother. Kemp is the elderly father of Kath and Ed, the pathetic occupant, with Kath, of the household that Sloane joins. Hard of hearing and weak of eyesight, Kemp recognizes Sloane as the murderer of his former boss—a photographer who picked up the hitchhiking Sloane, photographed him, and then took Sloane for a burglar as Sloane got up in the night to destroy the incriminating photos. Sloane is the sexually opportunistic, lower-middle-class young man who comes to the home of Kath and her father as a lodger, accidentally kills Kemp at the end of Act II, and ends up as an alternating sexual partner to the blackmailing brother and sister Entertaining Mr Sloane of Ed and Kath, living with one for six months and then the other for the next six Entertaining Mr Sloane. A handsome, amoral, self-serving, aggressive, and potentially violent young Entertaining Mr Sloane without much education but with Entertaining Mr Sloane street smarts, Sloane is capable of turning nearly any situation to his own advantage. Sloane is sexual appetite. With the exception of the aged Kemp, the characters are so preoccupied with their sexual needs that by Entertaining Mr Sloane end of the play they appear completely self- centered, frighteningly insensitive, and almost subhuman. Kath is the one most openly hunting for sexual satisfaction. Having met Sloane that afternoon in the library, she invites him to consider her home as an alternative to his present lodgings. In the pre-AIDS homosexual world, Orton was outrageously promiscuous to Entertaining Mr Sloane point of obsession, and in the characters of Entertaining Entertaining Mr Sloane. Sloane he portrayed a similar kind of sexual obsession. Sloane, of course, is initially the sexual predator, par excellence, as he is willing to serve either. But with the death of Kemp, Ed and Kath surpass Sloane in darkly comic obsessiveness, for they show no concern for the passing of their father and immediately use the event to further their sexual claims on Sloane. As the third act unfolds, Ed and Kath have completely forgotten their newly deceased father and are jockeying for sexual supremacy with Sloane. Have me naked on the floor if I give you a chance. If my brother was to know. Would you like to go to bed? Leather jeans, say? You may as well know I set great store by morals. Too much of this casual bunking up nowadays. I respect you. A more conventional playwright might turn this attempt to hide sexual obsession into a moral stance, permitting or even leading the audience to make judgments about the destructiveness and folly of this behavior. In fact, the obsession with normality not only causes the hypocrisy but perhaps also adds to the intensity of the rapacious sexual behavior as characters respond to the repression of their instinctive sexual needs. As a victim in his personal life of conventional moral judgments about homosexuality, Orton seems to suggest that conventional notions of morality ought to be challenged in order to encourage fresh thinking and to break the complacent certainty of the middle class as to what is right and wrong. The most effective way to force this thought process on his audience is to present them with outrageous behavior, entice them to laugh at it, and then refuse to give Entertaining Mr Sloane audience the satisfaction of a moralistic ending that would reinforce the status quo of conventional morality. At the end of Entertaining Mr. Paradoxical as it might sound, the pivotal point in the comedy of Entertaining Mr. Sloane is the killing of Kemp at the end of Act II. As Kemp enters at Entertaining Mr Sloane end of Act II, Sloane slams the door behind him and stalks the old man, who backs away and pathetically calls for Ed, the son he has barely spoken to for the last twenty years. This is genuine violence that threatens to replace laughter with serious apprehension and concern. Wake up. Wakey, wakey. Ed soon exits with Kemp, and when Ed returns fairly quickly he reports that Kemp is dead did Ed Entertaining Mr Sloane him off? Though Kath may subconsciously suspect that Kemp is dead, she carries on as if her father is merely ill. The distressed Sloane is a figure of dark comic fun as the tables are turned on him and he frets about the possibilities of facing the law, but the grim Entertaining Mr Sloane really heats up when Sloane figures out how to extricate himself. Remove that hand, will you? Any arrangement you fancy. Kath puts a final touch on this dark laughter when she reveals her insensitivity to the death of her father. But we have ourselves to think of. Ed forces Kath to face the reality of her middle-aged figure, dragging her in front of the mirror. It is this kind of multi-layered complexity of humor that gained Orton his stature as a significant figure in twentieth-century drama. During this time, many young people questioned what society had labeled sexually taboo. Entertaining Mr Sloane () - IMDb

Mr Sloane is a young man looking for a place to Entertaining Mr Sloane, who happens by the home of Kath, a middle-aged landlady whose home is on the outskirts of a rubbish dump. Kath is eager to have Mr Sloane as a tenant at her Entertaining Mr Sloane, which she shares with her nearly blind father, Kemp. In getting to know Mr Sloane, Kath is open with Mr Sloane about a previous relationship she had, which led to her bearing a child, Entertaining Mr Sloane her brother insisted on her giving up for adoption as it was conceived out of wedlock. Mr Sloane reveals he is himself an orphan, though vague about his parents' death, except that they "passed away together". Kath's father has an immediate distrust of Mr Sloane, believing he is the same man who killed his Entertaining Mr Sloane some years earlier. After an altercation between Kemp and Sloane, resulting in Sloane being stabbed Entertaining Mr Sloane the leg, Entertaining Mr Sloane begins to make somewhat subtle advances toward the young man. When Mr Sloane attempts to reciprocate, Kath warns him facetiously not to betray his trust. Kathy's brother Ed arrives soon after to find the visitor staying with his sister, much to his dismay. Kemp has an estranged relationship with his son as he found him to be "committing some kind of felony in the bedroom" as a teenager. Despite Ed's initial opposition to Mr Sloane staying Entertaining Mr Sloane his sister, after speaking with Sloane, Ed eventually relents and even goes so far as to offer him a job as his chauffeur. As Sloane recovers from his injury earlier in the evening, Kath returns wearing a transparent negligee and seemingly seduces Mr Sloane as the lights go down and Act One ends. The action resumes "some months later" and begins with Mr Sloane recounting an evening in which a young woman gave him her telephone number. Kath ambiguously hints at her jealousy, before ultimately revealing she is pregnant and concerned that her brother will strongly disapprove. Ed arrives soon after and discovers that Mr Sloane had taken his car out joyriding the night before with his friends. Upon finding out that they also had a woman with them, Ed divulges that he feels women are crude, and misleading. Ed advises Sloane to pack his things Entertaining Mr Sloane he will be on call as his assistant at all hours. When Sloane leaves the room to pack, Kemp mildly attempts to reconcile with his son, and conveys that Kath and Sloane have been sleeping together and believes Kath is now pregnant. When confronted, Sloane confirms he has been sleeping with Kath, but claims she "threw herself" at him. A short time later, Ed departs to buy cigarettes, and Kemp returns to confront Sloane as his employer's murderer. Sloane eventually attacks Kemp, resulting in his death. Upon Entertaining Mr Sloane his dead father, Ed is initially insistent that justice Entertaining Mr Sloane served and Sloane be turned over to the police. However, Sloane persuades Ed to fabricate a story to make the death appear an accident, in exchange for his servitude. When Kath discovers the dead body, she is apprehensive to stray from the truth especially given Sloane's intention to go and live with her brother. Sloane finds himself in a predicament: if he stays with Kath, Ed will report the murder to the authorities, and vice versa if he chooses to leave with Ed. Ultimately, a compromise is reached that will result in the pair "sharing" Mr. Sloane a few months at a time. The Broadway production, directed by Alan Schneideropened at the Lyceum Theatre on 12 October and closed after 13 performances. William Ritman designed the sets and costumes. Harry H. Corbett Entertaining Mr Sloane took over as Ed and as Sloane. John Gunter designed the sets and Deirdre Clancy supervised the costumes. It closed in October It was designed by Shaun Gorton, with music by David Chesworth. Originally made in monochrome on videotape by Associated-Rediffusionit Entertaining Mr Sloane as a telerecording. From Entertaining Mr Sloane, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the play. For the film adaptation, see Entertaining Mr Sloane film. Sloanea young, good-looking psychopath Katha middle-aged landlady EdKath's Entertaining Mr Sloane KempKath and Ed's father. New York: Knopf,p. Scarecrow Press. . BBC News. Entertaining Mr Sloane 2 May Banham, Martin, ed. The Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. Bigsby, C. Joe Orton. Contemporary Writers ser. London: Routledge. Burke, Arthur. Billericay, Essex: Greenwich Exchange. Charney, Maurice. Grove Press Modern Dramatists ser. NY: Grove P. Coppa, Francesca, ed. Joe Orton: A Casebook. Casebooks on Modern Dramatists ser. DiGaetani, John Louis. Jefferson: McFarland. Napierkowski, Marie Rose ed. Drama for Students. Detroit: Gale. Retrieved 18 October CS1 maint: extra text: authors list link Orton, Joe. The Complete Plays. London: Methuen. Orton, Joe Entertaining Mr Sloane. London: Hamish Hamilton. Ruskino, Susan. Twayne's English Authors ser. Boston: Twayne. The works of Joe Orton. Entertaining Mr Sloane Loot Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent Entertaining Mr Sloane Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Methuen Drama edition cover,