Аннотация:Joe Orton went to study at the Royal Academy for Dramatic Art in 1951,
in the heyday of Terence Rattigan, Whitehall farces, religious versedram a and Agatha Christie. The Wolfenden Report on homosexuality
was still six years away, and the film Victim ten. Theatre was often ‘queer’,
but it was always discreet. In the late 1950s, Orton showed no interest in
the socially and politically aware plays of Osborne, Delaney, and Wesker,
though they accompanied and contributed to a great increase in public
discussion of homosexuality — by 1958 the Lord Chamberlain, the
Crown official whose task it was to censor stage plays, was obliged to
allow serious treatm ent of the topic. Orton and his lover Kenneth
Halliwell were conducting a more distinctive and anarchic cultural criti
que by redesigning the covers of library books.3
Ключевые слова:Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes, Historical Gender and Feminism Studies, Gender Politics and Representation
