What The Butler Saw
What The Butler Saw
- TV comedy drama
- BBC Two
- 1987
- 1 episode
Bawdy comedy by Joe Orton, set in Dr Prentice's Home for the Disturbed. Also features Dinsdale Landen, Tessa Peake-Jones, Prunella Scales, Tyler Butterworth, Timothy West and Bryan Pringle
Press clippings
The subversive genius of Joe Orton
Fifty years ago the playwright Joe Orton was bludgeoned to death by his boyfriend at the peak of his career. What is Orton's legacy, and what would he have made of the strides towards equality made since his death by gay people in the UK?
Liam Barnes, BBC, 9th August 2017