Synopsis
What the Butler Saw
$15.99 Published by Methuen
4 Male 2 Female
The plot contains enough twists and turns, mishaps and changes of fortune, coincidences and lunatic logic to furnish three or four conventional comedies. But however the six characters in search of a plot lose the thread of the action - their wits or their clothes - their verbal self-possession never deserts them
Hailed as a modern comedy every bit as good as Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Orton's play is regularly produced, read and studied
"Joe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature" - Sunday Telegraph
"He is the Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility" - Observer