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Current Show	Cast		Crew
What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton Directed by Richard Frampton & Giles Checkley October 2007 To be performed in St Anne's Hall. To book tickets online please click here	Dr Prentice............... Mrs Prentice............ Geraldine Barclay... Dr Rance................... Nicholas Beckett..... Sergeant Match.......	Richard Brent Letitia Fussell Becca Stafford Paul Checkley John Laing Ian Pring	Producers......................... Stage manager & Props co-ordinator.......... Lighting design................. Lighting operator............. Sound design.................... Costume co-ordinator.... Set construction.............. Catering manager........... Publicity.............................	Lesley Tulley & Emma Stallard Judith Butler Jenny Davies & Paula Fitzgerald Sharron Stubbs Michael Ainsworth Carly Jukes Paul Checkley and Superfriends Rachel O'Reilly Paul Johnson
Synopsis
"Joe Orton's last play, What The Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature" Sunday Telegraph The chase is on, and libidos run rampant, in this breakneck comedy of licensed insanity. From the moment when Dr Prentice - a psychoanalyst interviewing a prospective secretary - instructs her to undress, his world is destined to change forever. The plot of What the Butler Saw contains enough twists and turns, mishaps and changes of fortune, coincidences and lunatic logic to furnish three or four conventional comedies. Dr Prentice's sometimes ingenious, increasingly desperate and ultimately doomed attempts to cover up his indiscretions can only lead him into trouble… and it is difficult to know who will get him first - the government inspector, his wife or a very confused policeman (in a dress). Poor Geraldine and Nicholas are just caught in the middle - sometimes in each others clothes, and sometimes without many clothes at all. But at least there will be plenty of material for Dr Rance's book… Oh, and just what has happened to 'certain parts' of Winston Churchill?! 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. What the Butler Saw was Orton's final play before his tragic death in 1967, at the height of his career.

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