What the Butler Saw (play)

What the Butler Saw
original window card, Whitehall Theatre, 1975
Written byJoe Orton
Date premiered27 January 1969
Place premieredQueen's Theatre
London, England
Original languageEnglish
Subjecta couple succeed in extracurricular seductions and frantically try to hide their conquests
GenreFarce
Settingan examination room in a private clinic

What the Butler Saw is a two-act farce written by the English playwright Joe Orton. He began work on the play in 1966 and completed it in July 1967, one month before his death. It opened at the Queen's Theatre in London on 5 March 1969. Orton's final play, it was the second to be performed after his death, following Funeral Games in 1968.

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