JOE ORTON UNWRAPPED: CENSORED AND UNCENSORED: PERFORMANCE FOR THE 50 TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF STAGE CENSORSHIP AT THE V & A 2018
JOE ORTON UNWRAPPED WAS PERFORMED FOR THE 50 TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF STAGE CENSORSHIP IN THE FOLLOWING SCHEME VAL DEVISED FROM THE JOE ORTON SCRIPTS CENSORED BY THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN HELD IN THE V & A ARCHIVE AND THE PUBLISHED SCRIPTS.
Richard Hansell
Edward Halsted, Rosie Sheehy, Richard Hansell
Joe Orton, Edward Halsted & Rosie Sheehy
Wendy Morgan & Edward Halsted
Wendy Morgan
JOE ORTON UNWRAPPED:
CENSORED AND UNCENSORED PERFORMANCE SCHEME – March 15
2018.
Cast: Edward Halsted, Wendy Morgan, Richard Hansell & Rosie Sheehy.
Directed & Devised by Valerie Doulton.
Scheme of scenes to be submitted to the Orton Estate.
LOOT – 4 SCENES.
McLeavy – Edward Halsted
Fay – Wendy Morgan
Hal/Truscott – Richard Hansell
Dennis – Rosie Sheehy
Methuen edition Loot pub 1967 and the Lord Chamberlain’s edition.
Scene 1 ACT ONE opening 3 pages from beginning of play to FAY ‘ Your
son is a thorn in my flesh’.
The same scene from the Lord Chamberlain’s edition including the
opening scene not included in the Loot Methuen edition.
Scene 2 ACT ONE
Methuen edition from FAY ‘sit down, Harold. I want a word with you.
Your father can’t
be expected to help at the moment’.
To 2 pages on in Methuen McLeavy ‘ The Friends of Bingo have sent a
wreath’.
The same scene from the Lord Chamberlain’s edition.
Scene 3 ACT ONE
Methuen edition from FAY ‘ I ask nothing. I’m a woman. Only half the
human race can say that without fear of contradiction’ to the end of Act
One.
The same scene from the Lord Chamberlain’s edition.
Scene 4 ACT TWO in the Methuen edition ( which is Act Three in the
Lord Chamberlain’s edition).
From the end of the play HAL ‘He’s a nice man. Self-effacing in his
way’. To end of play
Same scene from the Lord Chamberlain’s edition.
THE GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT
Methuen edition pub 1970 – 2 Scenes. Scene Two and Scene Three.
Mrs Vealfoy – Rosie Sheehy
Buchanan – Edward Halsted
WHAT THE BUTLER SAW
Methuen edition pub 1969
ACT ONE from the beginning of the play to RANCE ‘once seen a white
golliwog if not easily forgotten. What was the object in creating these
nightmare creatures.
PRENTICE ‘I hoped it might promote racial harmony’.
DR. Prentice – Edward Halsted
Geraldine Barclay – Rosie Sheehy
Mrs. Prentice – Wendy Morgan
Nicholas Beckett/ Dr. Rance – Richard Hansell
