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释义

  1. Early life

  2. Crimes and punishment

  3. Playwright

     Breakthrough  Loot  Later works 

  4. Murder

  5. Biography and film, radio, TV

  6. Plays

  7. Novels

  8. References

  9. Sources

  10. External links

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| name = Joe Orton
| image = Joe Orton 1964.jpg
| image_size = 280px
| caption = Orton in 1964
| birth_name = John Kingsley Orton
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|01|01|df=y}}
| birth_place = Leicester, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1967|08|09|1933|06|23|df=y}}
| death_place = Islington, London, England
| occupation = Playwright, author
| partner = Kenneth Halliwell (1926–1967)
}}John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known under the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author and diarist. His public career—from 1964 until his death in 1967—was short but highly influential[1][2][3][4][5]. During this brief period he shocked, outraged, and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies. The adjective Ortonesque refers to work characterised by a similarly dark yet farcical cynicism.[6]

Early life

Orton was born at Causeway Lane Maternity Hospital, Leicester, to William A. Orton and Elsie M. Orton (nėe Bentley). William worked for Leicester County Borough Council as a gardener and Elsie worked in the local footwear industry until tuberculosis cost her a lung. When Joe was two years old, they moved from 261 Avenue Road Extension in Clarendon Park, Leicester, to 9 Fayrhurst Road on the Saffron Lane council estate.[7] He soon had a younger brother, Douglas, and two younger sisters, Marilyn and Leonie.

Orton attended Marriot Road Primary School, but failed the eleven-plus exam after extended bouts of asthma, and so took a secretarial course at Clark's College in Leicester from 1945 to 1947.[8] He then began working as a junior clerk for £3 a week.

Orton became interested in performing in the theatre around 1949 and joined a number of dramatic societies, including the prestigious Leicester Dramatic Society. While working on amateur productions he was also determined to improve his appearance and physique, buying bodybuilding courses, taking elocution lessons, and trying to redress his lack of education and culture. He applied for a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in November 1950. He was accepted, and left the East Midlands for London. His entrance into RADA was delayed until May 1951 by appendicitis.

Orton met Kenneth Halliwell at RADA in 1951 and moved into a West Hampstead flat with him and two other students in June of that year. Halliwell was seven years older than Orton and of independent means, having a substantial inheritance. They quickly formed a strong relationship and became lovers.

After graduating, both Orton and Halliwell went into regional repertory work: Orton spent four months in Ipswich as an assistant stage manager; Halliwell in Llandudno, Wales. Both returned to London and began to write together. They collaborated on a number of unpublished novels (often imitating Ronald Firbank) with no success at gaining publication. The rejection of their great hope, The Last Days of Sodom, in 1957 led them to solo works.[9] Orton wrote his last novel, The Vision of Gombold Proval (posthumously published as Head to Toe), in 1959. He later drew on these manuscripts for ideas; many show glimpses of his stage-play style.

Confident of their "specialness," Orton and Halliwell refused to work for long periods. They subsisted on Halliwell's money (and unemployment benefits) and were forced to follow an ascetic life to restrict their spending to £5 a week. From 1957 to 1959, they worked in six-month stretches at Cadbury's to raise money for a new flat; they moved into a small, austere flat at 25 Noel Road in Islington in 1959.

Crimes and punishment

A lack of serious work led them to amuse themselves with pranks and hoaxes. Orton created the alter ego Edna Welthorpe, an elderly theatre snob, whom he later revived to stir controversy over his plays. Orton chose the name as an allusion to Terence Rattigan's Aunt Edna, Rattigan's archetypal playgoer.

From January 1959, they began surreptitiously to remove books from several local public libraries and modify the cover art or the blurbs before returning them to the shelves. A volume of poems by John Betjeman, for example, was returned to the library with a new dustjacket featuring a photograph of a nearly naked, heavily tattooed, middle-aged man.[10] The couple decorated their flat with many of the prints. They were eventually discovered and prosecuted in May 1962. They were found guilty on five counts of theft and malicious damage, admitted damaging more than 70 books, and were sentenced to prison for six months (released September 1962) and fined £262. The incident was reported in the Daily Mirror as "Gorilla in the Roses".

Orton and Halliwell felt that that sentence was unduly harsh "because we were queers".[11] However, prison was a crucial formative experience for Orton; the isolation from Halliwell allowed him to break free of him creatively; and he clearly saw what he considered the corruption, priggishness, and double standards of a purportedly liberal country. As Orton put it: "It affected my attitude towards society. Before I had been vaguely conscious of something rotten somewhere, prison crystallised this. The old whore society really lifted up her skirts and the stench was pretty foul.... Being in the nick brought detachment to my writing. I wasn't involved any more. And suddenly it worked."[12] The book covers that Orton and Halliwell vandalised have since become a valued part of the Islington Local History Centre collection. Some are exhibited in the Islington Museum.[13]

A collection of the book covers is available online.[14]

Playwright

Breakthrough

Orton began to write plays in the early 1960s. Eventually, in 1963, the BBC paid £65 for the radio play The Ruffian on the Stair, broadcast on 31 August 1964.[15] It was substantially rewritten for the stage in 1966.[16]

Orton revelled in his achievement and poured out new works. He had completed Entertaining Mr Sloane by the time Ruffian was broadcast. He sent a copy to theatre agent Peggy Ramsay in December 1963. It premiered at the New Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964, produced by Michael Codron. Reviews ranged from praise to outrage.

Entertaining Mr Sloane lost money in its three-week run, but critical praise from playwright Terence Rattigan, who invested £3,000 in it, ensured its survival.[17] The play was transferred to Wyndham's Theatre in the West End at the end of June and to the Queen's Theatre in October.[18] Sloane tied for first in the Variety Critics' Poll for Best New Play and Orton came second for Most Promising Playwright. Within a year, Sloane was performed in New York, Spain, Israel, and Australia as well as made into a film (after Orton's death) and a television play.[19][20]

Loot

Orton's next performed work was Loot. The first draft was written from June to October 1964 and was called Funeral Games, a title Orton dropped at Halliwell's suggestion but later reused. The play is a wild parody of detective fiction, adding the blackest farce and jabs at established ideas on death, the police, religion, and justice. Orton offered the play to Codron in October 1964 and it underwent sweeping rewrites before it was judged fit for the West End (for example, the character of Inspector Truscott had a mere eight lines in the initial first act).

Codron had manoeuvred Orton into meeting his colleague Kenneth Williams in August 1964. Orton reworked Loot with Williams in mind for Truscott. His other inspiration for the role was DS Harold Challenor.

With the success of Sloane, Loot was hurried into pre-production despite its obvious flaws. Rehearsals began in January 1965, with plans for a six-week tour culminating in a West End debut. The play opened in Cambridge on 1 February to scathing reviews.

Orton, at odds with director Peter Wood over the plot, produced 133 pages of new material to replace, or add to, the original 90. The play received poor reviews in Brighton, Oxford, Bournemouth, Manchester, and finally Wimbledon in mid-March. Discouraged, Orton and Halliwell went on an 80-day holiday in Tangier, Morocco.

In January 1966, Loot was revived, with Oscar Lewenstein taking up an option. Before his production, it had a short run (11–23 April) at the University Theatre, Manchester. Orton's growing experience led him to cut over 600 lines, raising the tempo and improving the characters' interactions.

Directed by Braham Murray, the play garnered more favourable reviews. Lewenstein, still a bit cool, put the London production in a "sort of Off-West End theatre," the Jeannetta Cochrane Theatre in Bloomsbury, under the direction of Charles Marowitz.

Orton clashed with Marowitz, although the additional cuts they agreed to further improved the play. This production was first staged in London on 27 September 1966, to rave reviews. Ronald Bryden in The Observer asserted that it had "established Orton's niche in English drama".[21] Loot moved to the Criterion Theatre in November where it ran for 342 performances.[22] This time it won several awards, and he sold the film rights for £25,000. Loot, when performed on Broadway in 1968, repeated the failure of Sloane, and the film version of the play was not a success when it surfaced in 1970.[23]

Later works

Orton was on an absolute high after the reception of Loot. Over the next ten months, he revised The Ruffian on the Stair and The Erpingham Camp for the stage as a double called Crimes of Passion, wrote Funeral Games, the screenplay Up Against It for the Beatles, and his final full-length play, What the Butler Saw.

The Erpingham Camp, Orton's take on The Bacchae, written through mid-1965 and offered to Associated-Rediffusion in October of that year, was broadcast on 27 June 1966 as the "pride" segment in their series Seven Deadly Sins.[24] The Good and Faithful Servant was a transitional work for Orton. A one-act television play, it was completed by June 1964 but first broadcast by Associated-Rediffusion on 6 April 1967, representing "faith" in the series Seven Deadly Virtues.[25][26]

Orton wrote and rewrote Funeral Games four times from July to November 1966. Also intended for The Seven Deadly Virtues, it dealt with charity — especially Christian charity — in a confusion of adultery and murder. Rediffusion did not use the play; instead, it was made as one of the first productions of the new ITV company Yorkshire Television, and broadcast posthumously in the Playhouse series on 26 August 1968, five weeks after an adaptation of Mr Sloane.[27][28]

In March 1967, Orton and Halliwell had intended another extended holiday in Libya, but they returned home after one day because the only hotel accommodation they could find was a boat that had been converted into a hotel/nightclub. Orton was working hard, energised and happy; Halliwell was increasingly depressed, argumentative, and plagued with mystery ailments.

Orton's then controversial farce What The Butler Saw debuted in the West End in 1969, more than 18 months after his death. It opened in March at the Queen's Theatre with Sir Ralph Richardson, Coral Browne, Stanley Baxter, and Hayward Morse.[29]

Murder

On 9 August 1967, Kenneth Halliwell bludgeoned 34-year-old Orton to death at their home in Islington, London, with nine hammer blows to the head, and then killed himself with an overdose of Nembutal.[30]

In 1970 The Sunday Times reported that four days before the murder, Orton had told a friend that he wanted to end his relationship with Halliwell, but did not know how to go about it.

Halliwell's doctor spoke to him by telephone three times on the day of the murder, and had arranged for him to see a psychiatrist the following morning. The last call was at 10 o'clock,[31] during which Halliwell told the doctor, "Don't worry, I'm feeling better now. I'll go and see the doctor tomorrow morning."

Halliwell had felt increasingly threatened and isolated by Orton's success, and had come to rely on antidepressants and barbiturates.[32] The bodies were discovered the following morning when a chauffeur arrived to take Orton to a meeting with director Richard Lester to discuss filming options on Up Against It. Halliwell left a suicide note: "If you read his diary, all will be explained. KH PS: Especially the latter part." This is presumed to be a reference to Orton's description of his promiscuity; the diary contains numerous incidents of cottaging in public lavatories and other casual sexual encounters, including with rent boys on holiday in North Africa. The diaries have since been published.[33]

Orton was cremated at the Golders Green Crematorium, his maroon cloth-draped coffin being brought into the west chapel to a recording of The Beatles song "A Day in the Life".[31][34] Harold Pinter read the eulogy, concluding with "He was a bloody marvellous writer." According to Dennis Dewsnap's memoir, What's Sex Got To Do With It (The Syden Press, 2004), Orton and Halliwell had their ashes mixed and were buried together. Dewsnap writes about Orton's agent Peggy Ramsay: "...At the scattering of Joe's and Kenneth's ashes, his sister took a handful from both urns and said, 'A little bit of Joe, and a little bit of Kenneth. I think perhaps a little bit more of our Joe, and then some more of Kenneth.' At which Peggy snapped, 'Come on, dearie, it's only a gesture, not a recipe.{{'"}}[35] She described Orton's relatives as simply "the little people in Leicester",[36] leaving a cold, nondescript note and bouquet at the funeral on their behalf.

Orton's ashes lie in section 3-C of the Garden of Remembrance at Golders Green. There is no memorial.[37]

A pedestrian concourse in front of the Curve theatre in Leicester has been renamed Orton Square.[38]

Biography and film, radio, TV

John Lahr's biography of Orton, entitled Prick Up Your Ears (a title Orton himself had considered using), was published in 1978. A 1987 film adaptation of the same name was released based on Orton's diaries and on Lahr's research.[39] Directed by Stephen Frears, it stars Gary Oldman as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell and Vanessa Redgrave as Peggy Ramsay.[40] Alan Bennett wrote the screenplay.

Carlos Be wrote a play about Orton and Halliwell's last days, Noel Road 25: A Genius Like Us, first performed in 2001.[41][42] It received its New York premiere in 2012, produced by Repertorio Español.[43]

Joe Orton was played by the actor Kenny Doughty in the 2006 BBC film Fantabulosa!, starring Michael Sheen as Kenneth Williams.[44]

Leonie Orton Barnett's memoir I Had It in Me was published in 2016 containing new information about her brother's life growing up in Leicester.[45]

In 2017, filmmaker Chris Shepherd made an animated short inspired by Orton's Edna Welthorpe letters, 'Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs)', starring Alison Steadman as Edna[46]

Two archive recordings of Orton are known to survive: a short BBC radio interview first transmitted in August 1967 and a video recording, held by the British Film Institute, of his appearance on Eamonn Andrews' ITV chat show transmitted 23 April 1967.[47]

Plays

  • Fred and Madge (written 1959, published 2001)
  • The Visitors (written 1961, published 2001)
  • The Ruffian on the Stair (first performance 1964) Radio play
  • Entertaining Mr Sloane (first performance 1964)
  • Loot (first performance 1965)
  • The Erpingham Camp (first performance 1966)
  • The Good and Faithful Servant (first performance 1967)
  • Funeral Games (first performance 1968)
  • What the Butler Saw (first performance 1969)
  • Up Against It (screenplay)

Novels

  • Head to Toe (published 1971)
  • Between Us Girls (published 2001)
  • Lord Cucumber and The Boy Hairdresser (co-written with Halliwell) (published 1999)

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.mocalondon.co.uk/uploads/1/0/1/4/101463086/what_the_artist_saw_ebook_2017_mocalondon.pdf|title=What the Artist Saw|last=Parker|first=Emma|date=15 January 2017|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=24 October 2018}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.bl.uk/people/joe-orton|title=Joe Orton|last=|first=|date=|website=The British Library|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-10-24}}
3. ^{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=|title=Orton, John Kingsley [Joe] (1933–1967), playwright {{!}} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-35334|journal=|language=en|volume=|pages=|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001|via=|doi-broken-date=2019-02-09}}
4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-40511985|title=The subversive genius of Joe Orton|last=Barnes|first=Liam|date=2017-08-09|work=BBC News|access-date=2018-10-24|language=en-GB}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/leicester-playwright-joe-orton-lives-on-in-hollywood|title=Alec Baldwin learned from Joe Orton for awardwinning performance|last=|first=|date=|website=le.ac.uk|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-10-24}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ortonesque|title=Ortonesque - Definition of Ortonesque in English by Oxford Dictionaries|website=Oxford Dictionaries - English}}
7. ^http://www.storyofleicester.info/city-heritage/people-of-leicester/joe-orton/
8. ^Stage and Screen Lives, 9, Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 249.
9. ^Lahr (1978) pp.109–111
10. ^Philip Hoare, [https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/sep/30/halliwell-orton-art-collage-library-books "Kenneth Halliwell: lover, killer… artist?"], The Guardian, 30 September 2013.
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.joeorton.org/Pages/Joe_Orton_Life12.html |title=Life and Work: 'Because We were Queers': 1 OF 2|publisher=Joe Orton Online |date=28 April 1962 |accessdate=30 March 2012}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.joeorton.org/Pages/Joe_Orton_Life13.html |title= Life and Work: 'Because We were Queers': 2 OF 2|publisher=Joe Orton Online |date= |accessdate=30 March 2012}}
13. ^{{cite news|title=Library books stolen by Joe Orton go on display|work=Evening Standard|date=12 May 2008|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/library-books-stolen-by-joe-orton-go-on-display-6680945.html}}
14. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.joeorton.org/Pages/Joe_Orton_Gallery13.html |title=Joe Orton Gallery |publisher=Joeorton.org |date= |accessdate=30 March 2012}}
15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/articles/2007/04/12/ruffian_on_the_stair_event_feature.shtml|title=The Ruffian on the Stair|last=BBC|publisher=}}
16. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.joeorton.org/Pages/Joe_Orton_Plays2.html|title=Joe Orton Life and Work|website=www.joeorton.org}}
17. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/it-was-35-years-ago-today-nihilism-with-a-smile-1092376.html|title=It was 35 years ago today: Nihilism with a smile|date=9 May 1999|publisher=}}
18. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=UIZiBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&dq=entertaining+mr+sloane+transferred+to+%5B%5BWyndham's+Theatre%5D%5D+in+the+%5B%5BWest+End+theatre%7CWest+End%5D%5D+at+the+end+of+June+and+to+the+%5B%5BQueen's+Theatre%5D%5D+in+October#v=onepage&q=entertaining+mr+sloane+transferred+to+%5B%5BWyndham's+Theatre%5D%5D+in+the+%5B%5BWest+End+theatre%7CWest+End%5D%5D+at+the+end+of+June+and+to+the+%5B%5BQueen's+Theatre%5D%5D+in+October&f=false|title=Murder and Mayhem in North London|first=Geoffrey|last=Howse|date=19 May 2010|publisher=Wharncliffe|via=Google Books|isbn=9781783374892}}
19. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1335133/|title=BFI Screenonline: Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970)|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}
20. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/444034/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Entertaining Mr Sloane (1968)|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}
21. ^Colin Chambers Peggy: The Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent, Nick Hern Books, 1997, pp. 164-65.
22. ^Chambers, p. 165.
23. ^Chambers, p. 166.
24. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.joeorton.org/Pages/Joe_Orton_Plays10.html|title=Joe Orton Life and Work|website=www.joeorton.org}}
25. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.joeorton.org/Pages/Joe_Orton_Plays5.html|title=Joe Orton Life and Work|website=www.joeorton.org}}
26. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b43d3fd|title=The Good and Faithful Servant (1967)|publisher=}}
27. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.joeorton.org/Pages/Joe_Orton_Plays12.html|title=Joe Orton Life and Work|website=www.joeorton.org}}
28. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b71c69323|title=Funeral Games (1968)|publisher=}}
29. ^{{cite web|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O153962/what-the-butler-saw-artwork-anderson-lindsay/|title=What The Butler Saw - Anderson, Lindsay - V&A Search the Collections|website=collections.vam.ac.uk}}
30. ^{{cite book|last=Orton|first=Joe|author2=Lahr, John|title=The Orton Diaries|publisher=Da Capo Press|year=1996|page=266|isbn=978-0-306-80733-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7DiU-70SBgC&q=hammer#v=snippet&q=hammer&f=false}}
31. ^1 Michael Thornton, "Why I blame myself for the murder of Sixties playwright Joe Orton", Mail Online, 4 April 2009.
32. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1167197/Why-I-blame-murder-Sixties-playwright-Joe-Orton-theatre-critic-friend-Michael-Thornton.html|title=Why I blame myself for the murder of Sixties playwright Joe Orton, by theatre critic and friend Michael Thornton|publisher=}}
33. ^Lahr, J. (2013). The Orton Diaries. Methuen, London. {{ISBN|9780413777249}}
34. ^A Times correspondent, 19 August 1967 – timesonline archive assessed 27 August 2009.
35. ^Colin Chambers in his biography of Peggy Ramsay disputes the veracity of this anecdote, though not the mixing of ashes. See Chambers' Peggy, p. 168.
36. ^"A Ceremony" by Leonie Barnett, Entertaining Mr. Sloane Programme, Ambassadors' Theatre Group, 2009.
37. ^Golders Green Crematorium guide notes
38. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/articles/2008/10/06/orton_square_feature.shtml|title=Orton Square - A Fitting Tribute|last=BBC|publisher=}}
39. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/484991/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Prick Up Your Ears (1987)|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}
40. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b75bba80a|title=Prick up Your Ears (1987)|publisher=}}
41. ^"Sobre Carlos Be". Retrieved 3 September 2012.
42. ^"Noel Road 25: a genius like us – Out of the Wings". Retrieved 3 September 2012.
43. ^"Plays produced by Repertorio Español (Spanish Theatre Repertory) since its founding in 1968" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916183703/http://www.repertorio.org/todownload/English/SpanishRepPlayHistory.pdf |date=16 September 2012 }}, 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
44. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8ba28b35|title=Kenneth Williams Fantabulosa! (2006)|publisher=}}
45. ^{{Cite book|title=I Had It in Me|last=Orton|first=Leonie|publisher=Quirky Press|year=2016|isbn=|location=|pages=}}
46. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.ednawelthorpe.co.uk/the-film/|title=Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe|last=Shepherd|first=Christopher|date=2017|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=October 27, 2018}}
47. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b70fd1a28|title=The Eamonn Andrews Show[23/04/67] (1967)|publisher=}}

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  • ---. 1989. Diary of a Somebody, London: Methuen. {{ISBN|0-413-61180-9}}.
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