Loot (Student Editions)

Loot (Student Editions)

<p>A black farce masterpiece, <i>Loot</i> follows the fortunes of two<br>young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an<br>undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour<br>and have returned to Hal's home to hide-out with the loot. Hal's mother<br>has just died and the pair put the money in her coffin, hiding the body<br>elsewhere in the house. With the arrival of Inspector Truscott, the<br>thickened plot turns topsy-turvy. Playing with all the conventions of<br>popular farce, Orton creates a world gone mad and examines in detail<br>English attitudes at mid-century. The play has been called a Freudian<br>nightmare, which sports with superstitions about death - and life. It<br>is regularly produced in professional and amateur productions. First produced in London in 1966, <i>Loot</i> was hailed as "the<br>most genuinely quick-witted, pungent and sprightly entertainment by a<br>new, young British playwright for a decade" (<i>Sunday Telegraph</i>).</p><p>The Student Edition offers <b>a plot summary, full commentary, character</b><br><b>notes and questions for study, besides a chronology and bibliography.</b></p>