"Joe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be
accepted as a comedy classic of English literature" (Sunday
Telegraph) The chase is on in this breakneck comedy of licensed
insanity, from the moment when Dr Prentice, a psychoanalyst
interviewing a prospective secretary, instructs her to undress. The
plot of What the Butler Saw contains enough twists and turns,
mishaps and changes of fortune, coincidences and lunatic logic to
furnish three or four conventional comedies. But however the six
characters in search of a plot lose the thread of the action -
their wits or their clothes - their verbal self-possession never
deserts them. Hailed as a modern comedy every bit as good as
Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Orton's play is regularly
produced, read and studied. What the Butler Saw was Orton's final
play."He is the Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility" (Observer)
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