Head to Toe and Up Against It: A Novel and up against it: a Screenplay for the Beatles - Softcover

Joe Orton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306808366 ISBN 13: 9780306808364

Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Here, together for the first time in one volume, are Joe Orton's earliest and last published works. Head to Toe is the saga of Gombold, who strays onto the head of a creature some hundred miles high and begins making his way through the giant's nether regions and on toward his toes. En route, he falls into the clutches of a dominating and gender-bending policewoman; finds himself in an assassination squad whose target is the prime minister; and finally enlists in an apocalyptic war between the Left and Right Buttocks. Up Against It is a screenplay commissioned by the Beatles in 1967, in which, as Orton described it, "The boys have been caught in flagrante, become involved in dubious political activity, dressed as women, committed murder, been put in prison, and committed adultery." The two works, which mirror each other in many ways, combine elements of satire, eroticism, and nightmare with Orton's characteristic glee.

About this title

About the Author:

The plays of Joe Orton (1933-1967)-- Loot, What the Butler Saw, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, and others--rank with Oscar Wilde's as some of the most outrageous and hilarious of our time. He was brutally murdered by his male lover at the peak of his career.

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0306808366
• ISBN 13: 9780306808364
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 462