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John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist. His public career, from 1964 until his murder in 1967, was short but highly influential.
Aug 8, 2017 · Fifty years ago the playwright Joe Orton was bludgeoned to death by his boyfriend at the peak of his career. What is Orton's legacy, and what would he have made of the strides towards...
Aug 8, 2017 · Fifty years ago the playwright Joe Orton was bludgeoned to death by his boyfriend at the peak of his career. What is Orton's legacy, and what would he have made of the strides towards equality...
Daniel Thurman is a writer. His latest play, ‘Those Hard to Reach Places’ will be broadcast soon on BBC Radio 4. Like Joe Orton I was born in Leicester. The fact that we shared a home town, coupled with wanting to be a writer myself, led me as a teenager to happen upon his plays.
Mar 4, 2019 · He describes his attempt to “seduce” Geraldine as a story “concerned solely with the heart” and sentimentalises the rape of his wife as “a moment that was very precious to me”. Orton ...
Aug 2, 2017 · Orton had been bludgeoned to death by his boyfriend, Kenneth Halliwell, just as he was beginning to reap the rewards of his writing career. The murder, and Halliwell’s suicide, were discovered on 9 August 1967, when Orton was due at a meeting to discuss his Beatles’ script.
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Joe Orton was born John Kingsley Orton on January 1st 1933 to William and Elsie Orton while living in lodgings in the Clarendon Park Road area of Leicester. He was the eldest of four children, Douglas (b1937), Marilyn (b1939) and Leonie (b1944).
