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Los Angeles Theater Review: WHAT THE BUTLER SAW (Mark Taper Forum)  by Jason Rohrer

WHAT DIDN’T HE Joe Orton was a loudly subversive English playwright who, before his murder in 1967, helped rip out the loud, inefficient plumbing of kitchen sink social drama and replace it with something really dangerous: comedy. In a series of black farces, Orton substituted the Socialist Rape Victim for John Osborne’s Angry Young Man. […]

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:37PM on November 26, 2014

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