Fred and Madge

Fred and Madge Two Plays ;The Visitors

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Publisher's Synopsis

Two plays by Joe Orton, written before his breakthrough with Entertaining Mr Sloane

Fred and Madge, written in 1959 when he was 26, is Orton's very first play - and it shines with Orton's extraordinary way with one-liners and with dialogue that reeks of hilarious sexual and social innuendo.

The Visitors, written in 1961, is the last play Orton wrote before his breakthrough. A thoroughly convincing exercise in slice-of-life realism set in a hospital where the dying Kemp is visited by his middle-aged daughter, while the nurses spend more time on in-fighting than on patient care.

Book information

ISBN: 9781854593597
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 822.914
DEWEY edition: 21
Number of pages: 165
Weight: 222g
Height: 199mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 16mm