A black farce masterpiece; Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves; Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and have returned to Hals home to hide-out with the loot. Hals mother has just died and the pair put the money in her coffin; hiding the body elsewhere in the house. With the arrival of Inspector Truscott; the thickened plot turns topsy-turvy. Playing with all the conventions of popular farce; Orton creates a world gone mad and examines in detail English attitudes at mid-century. The play has been called a Freudian nightmare; which sports with superstitions about death - and life. It is regularly produced in professional and amateur productions.First produced in London in 1966; LOOT was hailed as "the most genuinely quick-witted; pungent and sprightly entertainment by a new; young British playwright for a decade" (Sunday Telegraph)
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Sue KThis is an excellent; scholarly work of art history that will reward readers interested in Aztec studies.
