WHAT THE BUTLER SAW by Joe Orton DAVID TENNANT as Nicholas Beckett National Theatre Lyttelton
Written by Joe Orton. Thursday 3rd May to Saturday 5th and Tuesday 8th May to Saturday 12th May 1984. Directed by Jo German. A frantic farce, 'What the Butler Saw' is set in a psychiatric clinic yet there isn't a madman in sight. The bizarre proceedings stem from Dr Prentice's efforts to conceal his attempted seduction of his prospective secretary.
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Masquerading as a butler, Steed gets all worked up about the sounds coming from the room in which Emma and the notorious Group Captain Miles are having drinks, and he ends up crouched at the door, listening through the keyhole with a funnel. Steed reminds Emma she has a date with Group Captain Miles, leaving her with the advice, "Don't do.
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0:00 / 1:21:55 What The Butler Saw by Joe Orton Ortonesque 1.43K subscribers Subscribe Subscribed 1K 362K views 7 years ago What the Butler Saw was one of several plays shown in the BBC's.
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Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969 Plot Summary What the Butler Saw is a farcical play by English playwright, John Kingsley "Joe" Orton.
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Theatre What the Butler Saw Hampstead, London Michael Billington @billicritic Fri 22 Jul 2005 06.08 EDT All good farce starts from a plausible premise: a randy shrink seeks to divest a would-be.
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Prentice says he does not know where either one is. Geraldine puts on Nick's uniform, so that by the end of the act she is impersonating him and he her. Act 2 begins one minute later. Match.
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Other articles where What the Butler Saw is discussed: Joe Orton: 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. Orton's writing was marked by epigrammatic wit and an incongruous polish, his characters.
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Still, it was a fabulous cast, with John Alderton, Nicola Pagett, Debra Gillett, David Tennant and Richard Wilson to name but five. Here is the Theatricalia entry for this production. Michael Billington really liked it: Billington on What the Butler Sat, Mar 4, 1995 - 28 · The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) · Newspapers.com
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Combine that with Grindley's record this year - he has directed Kevin Spacey and David Schwimmer and his amazingly successful revival of Journey's End is coming back to the West End very soon - and maybe What the Butler Saw can make it. The plot is a classic, set in a madhouse, almost everybody that we see qualifies for incarceration but none.
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What the Butler Saw - review Vaudeville, London J oe Orton's final play, unrevised at the time of his death in 1967, is a hard one to get right, since it combines manic farce with non-stop social.
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In her diary for 2 September she described a most amazing scene when the butler Yeo was made to stand up to the roomful, and do his really excellent stunts. He barked like a lion, made a noise.
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Director Zac Hoogendyk and actors David Sedgwick and Emily Taplin Boyd discuss The Gallery Players' production of "What the Butler Saw" by Joe Orton, playing.
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Playing the part of the randy bellhop taken by Tennant all those years ago, recent RADA graduate Nick Hendrix makes a fetching West End debut as a lad striving to find both sense and sex amid an environment spiralling into chaos. And when his character reports early on that he had a "hard boyhood", well, in the world of Joe Orton, you know just.
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A major revival of Joe Orton's classic comedy What the Butler Saw in London starring Omid Djalili and Samantha Bond. The cast featured Tim McInnerny as 'Dr Prentice', Georgia Moffett as 'Geraldine Barclay', Samantha Bond as 'Mrs Prentice', Nick Hendrix as 'Nicholas Beckett', Omid Djalili as 'Dr Rance', and Jason Thorpe as 'Sergeant Match'.
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Pictured (l to r): Tom Cleary and David Sedgwick in The Gallery Players' production of What the Butler Saw. Photo by Bella Muccari. What the Butler Saw premiered in London's West End in 1969, two years after rising star playwright Orton was bludgeoned to death with a hammer by his male lover at the age of 34. The play has never had a.