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Entertaining Mr Sloane is a three-act play written in 1963 by the English playwright Joe Orton. [1] It was first produced in London at the New Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964 and transferred to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre on 29 June 1964.
Entertaining Mr Sloane is a 1970 British black comedy film directed by Douglas Hickox. The screenplay by Clive Exton is based on the 1964 play of the same title by Joe Orton . This was the second adaptation of the play, the first having been developed for British television and broadcast by ITV on 15 July 1968.
Dame Sheila Cameron Hancock (born 22 February 1933) is an English actress, singer, and author. She has performed in both plays and musicals in London’s theatre scene, and her Broadway debut in Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1966) earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Play.
The House of Atreus by Aeschylus; Directed by Tyrone Guthrie; in repertory with: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht; Directed by Edward Payson Call; The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search For God by Bernard Shaw (World Premiere); Adapted for the stage by Christopher Isherwood; Directed by Lamont Johnson
He played Mr Sloane in Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970). As an actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company he played the title role in Ron Daniel's 1979 production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre at The Other Place and played several roles in the 1982 epic production of Nicholas Nickleby for the same company.
Caulfield —who celebrated his 21st birthday on the Grease 2 set, just as he was coming off the It-Boy buzz of his breakout role in the off-Broadway play Entertaining Mr. Sloan — actually once ...
Among many stage credits are West End productions of Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot, An Inspector Calls (both transferring to Broadway), The Ruffian on the Stair, The Birthday Party and Gaslight (at the Old Vic). For his role as Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls, he was nominated for a Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Play. [6]
In 1981, she played sex-mad landlady Kath in Joe Orton's black comedy Entertaining Mr Sloane at the Lyric Hammersmith, directed by her friend Kenneth Williams. She reprised the role for a national tour with the National Theatre in 1993 co-starring John Challis of Only Fools and Horses fame. [30]