Joe Orton Laid Bare

[mikey4444]

Watched this last night and it was very informative. Also very rude in places :::::

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09h7vd1/joe-orton-laid-bare

[Old_Geezer]

I'd imagine it was if someone laid him bare.

[mikey4444]

OG....I don't think any had to, as he had already done that himself. I recall reading the Diaries many years ago, and being surprised about how anybody could be so frank and unashamed.

According to his sister, Leonnie, all his plays were really about himself and his family, especially his Mum and Dad.

Last nights program explained, for the first time, what really drove Halliwell to kill him, and then take his own life. Halliwell was just about to be "sectioned" and he couldn't bear to be parted from Orton.

Orton himself one said that he expected to die in is prime and he was right there !