White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical 1969 play, in which the head psychiatrist of a lunatic asylum, when trying to conceal the attempted molestation of his new secretary from his wife, only succeeds in making himself (and everyone else) look completely round the bend.
Barry Davis
Director
Joe Orton
Writer
Dinsdale Landen
Dr Prentice
Prunella Scales
Mrs Prentice
Timothy West
Dr Rance
Tyler Butterworth
Nicholas Beckett
Tessa Peake-Jones
Geraldine Barclay
Bryan Pringle
Sergeant Match
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