Joe Orton Laid Bare
- TV documentary
- BBC Two
- 2017
- 1 episode
A film that explores the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him. Also features Leonie Orton, Kenneth Cranham, Michael Codron, Christopher Hampton and Patricia Routledge
Press clippings
Joe Orton Laid Bare review
Talent and personality shine through the BBC's celebration of Orton's life and work.
Owen Richards, The Arts Desk, 26th November 2017"I have high hopes of dying in my prime," Joe Orton wrote in his diary in July 1967. Wish granted. Fifty years after his brutal murder at the hands of lover Kenneth Halliwell, this revealing, rude and melancholy film, featuring the playwright's own words, explores his short but dazzling life and career, plus a performance of an unpublished "pornographic" playlet ("While you were diddling Auntie, I got carried away with several rolls of embroidery cotton").
Ali Catterall, The Guardian, 25th November 2017Joe Orton Laid Bare, BBC2, review
The black farce, and tragedy, of theatre's rough boy.
Jeff Robson, i Newspaper, 25th November 2017