Joe Orton Leicester 1933 - Londres 1969 The name of the brilliant playwright Joe Orton is inevitably linked with that of his murderer, your partner, your lover ... Kenneth Halliwell, who killed Orton with a hammer.
Love, heartbreak, jealousy, summarizing a tumultuous relationship that went beyond the sentimental because they shared the job of writing from their poor start, although the fate of success only smiled at Orton, while Halliwell, in the background was regarded as the personal secretary of the first, but always considered to be the owner of talent devoted lover.
Joe Orton was his stage name, actually called John Kingsley Orton, saw its humble existence changed when interpreting a play by William Shakespeare. Son of a family of the English middle class, after being seen by a representative of the RADA ( Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts) was awarded a scholarship with which he began to get acting lessons. Where would trabaría friendship with Kenneth Halliwell and where begin their emotional and intellectual relationship, apparently the first homosexual character to Orton. Kenneth, refined, but perhaps with some lack of affection, falls soon, given to the way of being John.
Sardonic, ironic, clever, obscene ... With a natural talent to develop dialogue hilarious, full of wordplay that would delight of the spectators in the stalls, Orton began to write stories, along with Halliwell. Stories that never saw the light in the form of print, but that began to attract attention of editors who received them and rejecting because sex was a novelty at that time. The theme orbited about the gay world, little attention to date, and less direct form on which he wrote in collaboration with Kenneth Orton.
Jail
The innocence led them to prison. It was in these years of poverty when they came, so frequent, the public library for books to read so outrageous. Critical of everything they read, began writing on the flaps of the books provided their views on these works. In many of them showed their contempt for the reading, and authors, which unnerved the director of the library that they set a trap they fell childishly. To suspect them, they sent a letter revealed the fact. Letter to the unwary that both gave the same response from typewriter with which they had written all the nonsense about the books provided, the font of the machine made them guilty. Were tried and sentenced to six months in jail, they had to meet at "consummate evil and destruction."
It is at this time, the release from prison, where both live on welfare payments they receive scant three pounds per week and when a publisher provides the first opportunity for John, who renamed Joe and granting an advance to finish the work play, "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" that catapulted him to success.
Kenneth Halliwell
The description of sardonic and irreverent Joe Orton are not unjustified. Was able to wrest the teeth to his late mother and give it an intermission of an actor, just before going on stage, what we use on stage.
What does a writer when you get a prize?
Clearly, when a writer receives an award celebrates. And no doubt that Joe Orton also celebrated in their own way, of course. When he received his first major recognition for his second hit "Loot," Orton was to be one of the many tributes that were given away in public toilets, looking for love stealth, unknown men. This practice carried out quite often, also could have led to problems. The society of that time, past the half century, not frowned upon homosexual relationships and the police made raids in places that are carrying out these relationships. The public toilets were a meeting place not only for Orton, also used to go there accompanied by Halliwell. Promiscuity was a feature of their life together that, contrary to what one might think, did not damage the relationship of the two men, nor was the trigger of his unfortunate end. Seem to have been jealousy, in a strict intellectual sense, which, on August 9, 1967, blew up the relationship. As she understood it, was a moment of frenzy, perhaps anger, to Kenneth who, helpless and bewildered at the success of his partner and relegated to second place which he considered unfair, and while sleeping, killed by Joe Orton to deal it a high number of blows to the head with a hammer. Then, after taking an overdose of pills, Halliwell killed himself. Just as well, the life of a great playwright and, perhaps, the one that helped launch a hidden talent. Just so prematurely and in the mad whirl of madness, the lives of two special men, with a look of very particular in the comic as exceptional in the critical, and not having run over poverty, ruined the reputation.
Major works of Joe Orton are:
"The Good and Faithful Servant" of 1964.
"The Spoils" written in 1965.
"The Ruffian on the Stairs", 1966.
In 1967 he wrote "The Erpingham Camp" and "What the Butler Saw", the latter published posthumously. In the same case was published entitled "Funeral Games" in 1970 and the screenplay for a movie about The Beatles "Up Against It" in 1979. In the same year the autobiographical novel "Head to Toe."
Joe Orton was his stage name, actually called John Kingsley Orton, saw its humble existence changed when interpreting a play by William Shakespeare. Son of a family of the English middle class, after being seen by a representative of the RADA ( Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts) was awarded a scholarship with which he began to get acting lessons. Where would trabaría friendship with Kenneth Halliwell and where begin their emotional and intellectual relationship, apparently the first homosexual character to Orton. Kenneth, refined, but perhaps with some lack of affection, falls soon, given to the way of being John.
Sardonic, ironic, clever, obscene ... With a natural talent to develop dialogue hilarious, full of wordplay that would delight of the spectators in the stalls, Orton began to write stories, along with Halliwell. Stories that never saw the light in the form of print, but that began to attract attention of editors who received them and rejecting because sex was a novelty at that time. The theme orbited about the gay world, little attention to date, and less direct form on which he wrote in collaboration with Kenneth Orton.
Jail
The innocence led them to prison. It was in these years of poverty when they came, so frequent, the public library for books to read so outrageous. Critical of everything they read, began writing on the flaps of the books provided their views on these works. In many of them showed their contempt for the reading, and authors, which unnerved the director of the library that they set a trap they fell childishly. To suspect them, they sent a letter revealed the fact. Letter to the unwary that both gave the same response from typewriter with which they had written all the nonsense about the books provided, the font of the machine made them guilty. Were tried and sentenced to six months in jail, they had to meet at "consummate evil and destruction."
It is at this time, the release from prison, where both live on welfare payments they receive scant three pounds per week and when a publisher provides the first opportunity for John, who renamed Joe and granting an advance to finish the work play, "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" that catapulted him to success.
Kenneth Halliwell
The description of sardonic and irreverent Joe Orton are not unjustified. Was able to wrest the teeth to his late mother and give it an intermission of an actor, just before going on stage, what we use on stage.
What does a writer when you get a prize?
Clearly, when a writer receives an award celebrates. And no doubt that Joe Orton also celebrated in their own way, of course. When he received his first major recognition for his second hit "Loot," Orton was to be one of the many tributes that were given away in public toilets, looking for love stealth, unknown men. This practice carried out quite often, also could have led to problems. The society of that time, past the half century, not frowned upon homosexual relationships and the police made raids in places that are carrying out these relationships. The public toilets were a meeting place not only for Orton, also used to go there accompanied by Halliwell. Promiscuity was a feature of their life together that, contrary to what one might think, did not damage the relationship of the two men, nor was the trigger of his unfortunate end. Seem to have been jealousy, in a strict intellectual sense, which, on August 9, 1967, blew up the relationship. As she understood it, was a moment of frenzy, perhaps anger, to Kenneth who, helpless and bewildered at the success of his partner and relegated to second place which he considered unfair, and while sleeping, killed by Joe Orton to deal it a high number of blows to the head with a hammer. Then, after taking an overdose of pills, Halliwell killed himself. Just as well, the life of a great playwright and, perhaps, the one that helped launch a hidden talent. Just so prematurely and in the mad whirl of madness, the lives of two special men, with a look of very particular in the comic as exceptional in the critical, and not having run over poverty, ruined the reputation.
Major works of Joe Orton are: "The Good and Faithful Servant" of 1964.
"The Spoils" written in 1965.
"The Ruffian on the Stairs", 1966.
In 1967 he wrote "The Erpingham Camp" and "What the Butler Saw", the latter published posthumously. In the same case was published entitled "Funeral Games" in 1970 and the screenplay for a movie about The Beatles "Up Against It" in 1979. In the same year the autobiographical novel "Head to Toe."
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