Context for 'Loot' by Joe Orton
- Created by: sally_p
- Created on: 02-03-19 15:17
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- 'Loot' Context
- reaction to post-war austerity + strictness
- relationship with Kenneth Halliwell
- 1960s homosexuality
- murdered
- censorship
- Mrs McCleavy couldn't be played by an actor
- recent performances remove censorship
- (1967)
- mocking Catholicism
- mocking funeral traditions
- "Had euthanasia not been against my religion (...)"
- "[she returns to her prayers]"
- farce
- parody
- absurdity + witty dialogue
- city comedy
- leaving + entering stage
- black humour
- swinging sixties
- 'sexual revolution'
- controversial
- influence of Oscar Wilde = humorous + energetic dialogue
- police brutality
- Orton = arrested
- "out of breath with kicking"
- "I'll kick those teeth through the back of your head"
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