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Loot
Contributor(s): Orton, Joe (Author), Mayne, Andrew (Editor), Megson, Chris (Editor)
ISBN: 0413567605     ISBN-13: 9780413567604
Publisher: Methuen Drama
OUR PRICE:   $14.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2006
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Annotation: "It's Oscar Wilde crossed with Monty Python."-USA Today

Lootis a wild parody of detective fiction, adding the blackest farce and jabs at established ideas on death, the police, religion, and justice.

This is thestudent edition of Joe Orton's classic farce, first produced in London in 1966. It offers a plot summary, full commentary, character notes, and questions for study, along with a chronology and bibliography.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 822.914
Series: Methuen Drama Modern Plays
Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.63" W x 7.75" (0.27 lbs) 144 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:

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).

The Student Edition offers a plot summary, full commentary, character
notes and questions for study, besides a chronology and bibliography.

Contributor Bio(s): Megson, Chris: - CHRIS MEGSON is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK. His recent publications include The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays (2010); his book on The Seventies, for 'Methuen's Decades of Modern British Playwrighting' series, is forthcoming in 2012. He has published widely on British theatre culture since 1968 and documentary/Tribunal theatre.