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Title	:	The Orton Diaries
Author	:	Joe Orton
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	June 4th 1989 by Minerva (first published 1986)
Categories	:	Biography. Nonfiction. GLBT. Queer. LGBT. Autobiography. Memoir. Plays

The Orton Diaries

Joe Orton

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 563 Users | 38 Reviews

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"The trouble with Western Society today is the lack of
anything to conceal," teased Joe Orton in 1967, a short time
before receiving a deadly cosh from his jealous Signif Other.
Orton, the ultimate worldling whose plays reminded UK critics
of Ben Jonson, Shaw and an Oscar Wilde of the Welfare State,
kept a diary during the last months of his irreverent life
(d. age 34) that bursts w the upside down manners of his
ironic - classic - comedies.

Polishing his masterful chamber work, "What the Butler Saw,"
he opined: "Sex is the only way to infuriate the public.
Much more fucking and they'll be screaming hysterics--."

Like a Restoration playwright he exercises the comedy of
paradox -- w colloquial ease. US comic writers aim for the
punch-line (Neil Simon) or the put-down (Dorothy Parker).
Orton targets the mind with verbal jousts like "How dare
you involve me in a situation for which no memo has been
issued" and "Show your emotions in public or not at all."

The diary records his London life. After a trip to the barber,
he says, "My hair cut looks pretty good. It appears to be
quite natural whilst in actual fact being artificial. Which
is a philosophy I approve of."

Overheard conversation between two ladies on a bus: "There's
a lot of blue about lately." The other replies, "Yes, and
there's a lot of green about too." After buying a china pig
as a gift for his TV producer, he reports that the clerk "packed
it in a cardboard box that originally held three Bronco toilet
rolls. A more sensible present in many ways."

Forays with the Beatles are here, along with comments about
Olivier as "Othello" ("his costumes were just fashionable
beach wear"), and Vanessa Redgrave and her father ("he must have been bisexual or she wouldn't be alive today.") There's plenty of forthright sex. A doctor, he reports, keeps his house stocked
with lads, each with a task, including a boy responsible for the
goldfish. Finger wag : "Now, Dennis, you've neglected to feed
the fish. What is your excuse?" "Well, you see, I had the trade
in and I forgot." "You've no right to have the trade in until
you've fed the goldfish."

The Orton charm is YouTube visible in an Eamonn Andrews TVer just before he died. In life, in theatre, in his diary -- too much is never enough for the wondrous Joe Orton horseplay, except when it was.

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Original Title:	The Orton Diaries: including the correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and others
ISBN:	0749390050 (ISBN13: 9780749390051)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.1 From 563 Users | 38 Reviews

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Put simply, I found very little value in reading this book. I could have done without the explicit details about his sexual romps with teenage boys. It did offer some insight into his plays and this is the only reason I gave it 2 stars.

"The trouble with Western Society today is the lack ofanything to conceal," teased Joe Orton in 1967, a short timebefore receiving a deadly cosh from his jealous Signif Other.Orton, the ultimate worldling whose plays reminded UK criticsof Ben Jonson, Shaw and an Oscar Wilde of the Welfare State,kept a diary during the last months of his irreverent life(d. age 34) that bursts w the upside down manners of hisironic - classic - comedies.Polishing his masterful chamber work, "What the Butler Saw,"he

More interesting than most diaries, yet I beg to differ with the introduction in that they show Orton was "playing with fire", which is merely trying to be wise with the dubious benefit hindsight, or reading every aspect of his life as if it were somehow leading up to his untimely and gruesome death.

An absolute riot. Nearly lost bladder control while reading some of the episodes featuring Kenneth Williams. Unalloyed joy.

I'm so ambivalent on this book. It is Joe Orton's diary, annotated with letters and pertinent quotes from friends and family. As a diary, there is a fair amount of the mundane -- which is rather enjoyable. Joe was a brilliant, creative, cutting-edge playwright who was just coming into his own when he was killed violently by his long-time partner. Throughout the diary, you witness Joe Orton's ability to present characters, fully developed in very few lines. That is fascinating and worthy of more

Joe Orton's diaries (in 3 parts) ultimately bring about a feeling of embarrassment for a certain circle of 'my people'. I don't particularly want to moralize about Orton's promiscuity - which, in tandem with his burgeoning fame, led to his brutal murder by the "non-entity" who mentored and lived with him for years. In fact, as slavishly documented (esp.) in the second section (written in Tangier), sexual activity of the insatiable reads as tedious. (It's 'interesting' to read Orton claim that

I've read these diaries at least twice. Orton greatly inspires my own writing. He uses not one ounce of hesitation in anything he writes. Always wry, sometimes downright stinging, but always aimed at the targets in society that deserve it!