The death of Joe Orton - archive, August 1967 by Richard Nelsson

How the Guardian reported the death of Joe Orton, 50 years ago, from his funeral to the legal problems with his willOn 9 August 1967, the playwright Joe Orton was murdered by his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, in their Islington flat. The following day, Guardian theatre critic Philip Hope-Wallace wrote, "Joe Orton had an irreverent eye and a splendid ear for comic dialogue. It was ruthless, mordant, epigrammatic, and form…

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