Leonie Orton Barnett, Joe’s septuagenarian younger sister ... It is surely right that Orton, whatever one thinks of his personal life — and I am not defending his actions — should be ...

"Joe always used to say he was from the gutter, but he just knew what real life was like." What the Butler Saw, which was first staged in London two years after Orton died, has been performed in ...

Joe Orton was a subversive genius whose decade-long struggle to find an audience paid off in his early 30s. Despite his success, the playwright’s personal life was tumultuous. He faced ...

and without the natural charisma that makes people flock to Orton, he feels the weight of a power imbalance in their relationship that eventually drives him to take Joe’s life and his own ...

On 25 April, it will be 50 years since Joe Orton ... On 9 February, John Lahr, Orton's biographer and theatre critic of the New Yorker, will discuss Orton's life and work with the psychoanalyst ...

One may think that the best way to know an artist is by getting deep down in his thoughts, by peering into his life, by reading his diary. "It is quite a challenge to interpret Joe Orton but he ...