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Loot

  • Joe Orton
  • Full Length Play, Dark Comedy
  • 5M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780413451804

"Seethes with black, baleful mirth. Cudgels traditional morality."

Associated Press

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy

  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
A masterpiece of black farce, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves. Dennis works for an undertaker. Hal's old Mum has just died. They rob the bank next door to the funeral parlour and find just the place to hide the loot. With the money hidden in Mum's coffin, there's no place for Mum whose body keeps re-appearing at the most inopportune times. When Inspector Truscott turns up, the already thickened plot goes topsy-turvy. Loot saw its premiere in London in 1966 and remains on of the most potent works from this master of the macabre.

REVIEWS:

"...sure to please anyone who loves black comedy."

Broadwayworld.com

"...comic time bomb going off exactly on schedule and obliterating all in its radius with outlandish entertainment."

Huffington Post

"Get your handkerchiefs ready -- not for tears -- for ways to stifle your laughter."

Middletown Press

"Loot is a hoot!"

WMNR FIne Arts Radio

Seethes with black, baleful mirth. Cudgels traditional morality.

Associated Press
  • Casting: 5M, 1F

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A masterpiece of black farce, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves. Dennis works for an undertaker. Hal's old Mum has just died. They rob the bank next door to the funeral parlour and find just the place to hide the loot. With the money hidden in Mum's coffin, there's no place for Mum whose body keeps re-appearing at the most inopportune times. When Inspector Truscott turns up, the already thickened plot goes topsy-turvy. Loot saw its premiere in London in 1966 and remains on of the most potent works from this master of the macabre.

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