JOE Orton’s classic 60s drama, Entertaining Mr Sloane, celebrates its 50th year with a revival by London Classic (Ghosts, Equus) at Theatre Royal Winchester.
The play’s unique blend of farce and black comedy captured the suppressed desires of the period and won the London Critics ‘Variety’ award for Best Play of the Year, when it premiered in 1964.
The play tells the story of Kath and her elderly father, Kemp, and their new lodger, the enigmatic Mr Sloane. Provocative and sexually ambiguous, Sloane soon has Kath and her brother Ed, competing for his favours. But all is not as it seems.
Behind Sloane’s nonchalant demeanour lies a calculating psychopath with a dark and secretive past.
Seduction, blackmail and murder lie waiting in the wings.
Entertaining Mr Sloane runs from Thursday to Saturday.
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