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Loot (Paperback, New Edition - New Edition) Loot Price: R306
Discovery Miles 3 060
Loot (Paperback, New Edition - New Edition): Joe Orton

Loot (Paperback, New Edition - New Edition)

Joe Orton

Series: Modern Classics

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A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and have returned to Hal's home to hide-out with the loot. Hal's mother has just died and the pair put the money in her coffin, hiding the body elsewhere in the house. With the arrival of Inspector Truscott, the thickened plot turns topsy-turvy. Playing with all the conventions of popular farce, Orton creates a world gone mad and examines in detail English attitudes at mid-century. The play has been called a Freudian nightmare, which sports with superstitions about death - and life. It is regularly produced in professional and amateur productions. First produced in London in 1966, LOOT was hailed as "the most genuinely quick-witted, pungent and sprightly entertainment by a new, young British playwright for a decade" (Sunday Telegraph)

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Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Modern Classics
Release date: February 1967
Authors: Joe Orton
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
Edition: New Edition - New Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-413-45180-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
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LSN: 0-413-45180-1
Barcode: 9780413451804

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