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Entertaining Mr Sloane

Entertaining Mr Sloane
Methuen Drama edition cover, 2001
Written byJoe Orton
Characters
  • Sloane, a young, good-looking psychopath
  • Kath, a middle-aged landlady
  • Ed, Kath's brother
  • Kemp, Kath and Ed's father
Date premiered6 May 1964
Place premieredNew Arts Theatre
London, England
SubjectA landlady and her brother entice a psychopathic young man into sexual liaisons
GenreBlack comedy
SettingA house on the edge of a rubbish dump

Entertaining Mr Sloane is a three-act play written in 1963 by the English playwright Joe Orton.[1] It was first produced in London at the New Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964 and transferred to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre on 29 June 1964.[2]

  1. ^ [1] Lahr, John. Prick up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton. New York: Knopf, 1978, p. 128 ISBN 0394501535
  2. ^ Orton (1976, 64).

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