What the Butler Saw
What the Butler Saw
Author: Joe Orton
First Performance: 1969, London
Published: 1969
Genre: Farce in 2 acts
Setting: Room in a private clinic, 1960s
Cast: 4m, 2f
Dr Prentice, a psychiatrist interviewing Geraldine Barclay, an attractive young orphan, for the post of secretary, requires her to get undressed for a full examination. As she lies naked behind a screen, Prentice's wife enters. With her is Nicholas Beckett, a pageboy who seduced her the previous evening in her hotel. He now demands payment for pornographic photographs taken of their lovemaking. When he goes, Mrs Prentice alleges that Nick raped her and stole her dress. She leaves with Geraldine's dress. Dr Rank, a government inspector, discovers the naked Geraldine, and Prentice pretends that she is a patient with delusions. As she is...
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