Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane reviewed " archive, May 1964
7 May 1964: Orton's first play is a 'milk-curdling essay in lower-middle-class nihilism' Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane, at the New Arts Theatre Club, opened last night with forced movements on stage and forced laughs from the auditorium. But in the course of the evening it settled down into a milk-curdling essay in lower-middle-class nihilism. The 25-year-old author, a new dramatist from the Colin Wilson countr…