Queer What’s On
Seeing homosexuality in Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw (LGBT+ History Month Lecture)
Venue: Curtis Auditorium
Date: Feb 19th 2019
Time: 17:30
Price: Free
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Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw (1969) features no gay characters, yet homosexuality is the absent centre of his final play. In the first half of this talk marking LGBT+ History Month, Emma Parker explores how Orton’s queer black comedy subverts sexual double standards, mocks heteronormativity and challenges discourses of deviance. In the second Leonie Orton will read from her memoir, I Had it In Me (2016), in which she explores the origins of her brother’s outrageous humour, in his home town of Leicester and in the Orton family.