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What the Butler Saw is a two-act farce written by the English playwright Joe Orton. He began work on the play in 1966 and completed it in July 1967, one month before his death. [1] It opened at the Queen's Theatre in London on 5 March 1969.
- Joe Orton
- 1969
What the Butler Saw was one of several plays shown in the BBC’s Theatre Night strand in 1987. In this production Dinsdale Landen plays Dr Prentice with Prune...
- 82 min
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Lo que vio el mayordomo ( What the Butler Saw en su idioma original) es una obra de teatro en dos actos del dramaturgo británico Joe Orton, estrenada en 1969. Argumento. La obra gira en torno al Dr. Prentice, un psiquiatra decidido a seducir a su atractiva secretaria Geraldine Barclay.
What the Butler Saw, Joe Orton’s final play, is an intensely funny farce set in the sexually charged private clinic of psychiatrist, Dr. Prentice. As the play opens, Dr. Prentice is interviewing the young, attractive Geraldine Barclay to be his new secretary.
Sloane (1964), Loot (1965), and What the Butler Saw (produced posthumously, 1969), were outrageous and unconventional black comedies that scandalized audiences with their examination of moral corruption, violence, and sexual rapacity.
4 de mar. de 2019 · Set in a psychiatric clinic, Butler exposes the monstrous misconduct of two doctors, Prentice and Rance.
In Orton’s time, however, the authority of the psychiatrist was more absolute. In What the Butler Saw, Orton calls the entire system into question, blurring the line between sanity and madness, questioning psychiatric methods, and subverting the authority of the psychiatrist.
