…And for my next tardis adventure, I will venture in 1960s England 
My next show is Loot, written by Joe Orton in 1965, a dark comedy satirizing the integrity of the police and ridicules the idea of being an upright citizen. It’s all based in a nursing home where Nurse Fay McMahon has successfully had yet another rich patient die on her, while the dead patients’ son is interested in larger sums of money, direct from the local bank.
Its a chance to venture into 1960s England before the swinging sixties really took off, and also a chance to explore Joe Orton, his work, and untimely death, at the hands ( and hammer) of his lover Kennith Halliwell in 1967. There’s an interesting article about Orton’s death here that exposed quite how paranoid Halliwell was, calling Joe’s friends and pretending to be Joe to find out what they really thought of him and asking about his lack of invitations to parties, after Entertaining Mr Sloane was produced in London in 2009.
I’m also watching endless sixties classic and b-movies, (Psychomania! – so bad its good 60s motorcycle gang flick) ; Prick up Your Ears, the movie after Orton’s Diaries of the same name collected together post humorously by John Lahr (everything you possibly or didn’t want to know about cottaging); Psychedelic Decadence: Sex, Drugs & Low-Art in Sixties & Seventies Britain ( which has great lists of 60s B movies), and The Sixties: Big Ideas, Small Books by Jenny Diski. Its making for interesting reading
Loot by Joe Orton, directed by Bert Pigg
September 23 – October 29
Talk Back 10/16*
Runs Fri & Sat @ 8PM; Sun 10/16 @ 7PM; Thu 10/27 @ 8PM
http://www.littlefishtheatre.org/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_36
