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What The butler Saw

Presented by Guilford College at Guilford College

April 18-April 19, 2008

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Strip down to your skivvies and put on your rubber gloves for the Theatre Studies Senior Company production of Joe Orton’s sex farce, What the Butler Saw. This thesis production will play in Sternberger Auditorium. In What the Butler Saw, Orton throws his audience into a world of nymphomania, incest, blackmail, and chaos. When Dr. Prentice, a lusty psychiatrist, attempts to seduce a naiveté secretarial candidate, desire and confusion abound. A government agent, a blackmailer, a police officer, and Mrs. Prentice all converge to unmask each other’s true nature. 1967’s What the Butler Saw was Orton’s final play. The title comes from an Edwardian peepshow, setting a comically voyeuristic tone. John Lahr, Orton’s biographer, sums up the impetus behind the show, “in showing us how we destroy ourselves, Orton’s plays are themselves a survival tactic.” Hailed as his “farce masterpiece”, Orton’s play pulls us through the keyhole into a house of depraved sexual appetites and forces us to question the very nature of society and our own identities. Come take a peek as senior company members Clare Davis, Sean Finan, Kass James, Hannah Jeffery Derek Loehr, Scott Lyman, Jacob Martin, Amy Morrison and Jordan Spoon romp through a society where men are women, women are men, and Churchill is missing his cigar. Please Note: This performance contains nudity and may not be suitable for young children.