Joe Orton, A Genius Like Us (Part 2 of 8)

"Arena" - A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton. Directed by Pamela Brighton and Nigel Williams.
... Originally broadcast on 9 November 1982, on BBC 2.
... Portrait of playwright Joe Orton, murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell at the peak of his career in 1967.
... Posted the whole documentary, by request. ;-)
... In 8 parts, unfortunately.

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His sister looks so much like him. Thank you so much for posting these wonderful videos!

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To go back in time to re~see how things were, like in those communal gardens is truly nostalgicaly haunting💙

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thanks for posting this, he was a genius

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I'd like it if all creative geniuses were nice people, but it doesn't work that way. I encountered Joe Orton's writing without biographical context and was floored by the brilliance of his language. When I read biographical material, I concluded there was plenty to dislike about the man (besides his cruelty to the pathetic Kenneth Halliwell, who was hardly the author of Orton's career). But conflating Joe Orton's many personal shortcomings with his enormous talent is foolish.