"The piece [Entertaining Mr Sloane] is by a young master of artificial diction and ribaldry, a writer whom other writers recognized. Seán O'Casey said cheerfully to me that this was a play to make a man pull his trousers up."
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Joe Orton
John Kingsley "Joe" Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967) was an English playwright.
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