by Joe Orton

19 June - 14 July 2012

ABOUT THE SHOW
It may be Swinging 60s London, but out in dreary lace-curtained suburbia, middle-aged Kath is lonely and desperate.  At the local library she meets ‘Mr Sloane’, a charming and beautiful young man with a murky past, and invites him back home to take up residence in the spare room.

Soon Kath and her bachelor brother Ed, infatuated with the charismatic young lodger, are vying for possession of his body even as he manipulates their sexual greed to his own advantage.  Only the suspicions of their father, Kemp, threaten this very cosy little set up – but it’s nothing that can’t be sorted.

Entertaining Mr Sloane is a wicked satire on sex in the 60s from the writer of Loot and What the Butler Saw, playfully inverting the social clichés of middle-class morality to create a brilliant queer comedy. Entertaining Mr Sloane may no longer shock, but it remains a gloriously witty romp, funny, sexily subversive and outrageous.