Joe Orton was ruined and knew it, but he wasn't a hypocrite. He was
ruined by his culture. He was poor, ill-educated, raised in a
family whose dominating personality was a tyrant. He was deprived
of love and figures he could identify with. His society was to
blame for his poverty. It was widespread when he was born on 1st
January 1933. At the time, most wage-earners didn't pay income tax.
There was no health service, education was hit and miss.
Deprivation was accepted by many of those in power as a fact of
life. Orton was born into an exploitative, manipulative, abusive,
hypocritical culture. He came to realize it and employed his genius
in scathing mockery of the society which did him so much harm.
Orton's plays show what happens when people won't face the truth
about themselves. The carnage in Noel Road on 9th August 1967 might
have been the final scene from one of his works. Orton had lived
close to violence and abuse all his life. He knew a violent death
was always possible.
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