WHAT THE BUTLER SAW by Jo Orton
Libidos' run rampant in this comic farce about licensed insanity. From
the moment when Dr Prentice, a psychoanalyst, instructs a prospective
secretary to undress; this psychiatric clinic becomes a world of
carnivalesque chaos where rampant mistaken identities, undressing and
cross dressing add layer upon layer of mischievous confusion to this
black comedy

What the Butler Saw ( a euphemism for an English ‘peep show’) was
hailed as Orton’s masterpiece, and was his fnal play before being
bludgeoned to death by his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, back in 1967.


“ ….after 40 years this epic still has the power to shock….it is as
outrageously and scandalously funny as ever.”