This article is about the play. For the film adaptation, see Entertaining Mr Sloane (film).
Entertaining Mr Sloane
Methuen Drama edition cover, 2001
Written by
Joe Orton
Characters
Sloane, a young, good-looking psychopath
Kath, a middle-aged landlady
Ed, Kath's brother
Kemp, Kath and Ed's father
Date premiered
6 May 1964
Place premiered
New Arts Theatre London, England
Subject
A landlady and her brother entice a psychopathic young man into sexual liaisons
Genre
Black comedy
Setting
A house on the edge of a rubbish dump
Entertaining Mr Sloane is a three-act play written in 1963 by the English playwright Joe Orton.[1] It was first produced in London at the New Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964 and transferred to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre on 29 June 1964.[2]
^[1] Lahr, John. Prick up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton. New York: Knopf, 1978, p. 128 ISBN 0394501535
^Orton (1976, 64).
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