Fred And Madge
by Joe Orton

Name: Fred And Madge
Brand: Joe Orton
SKU: 9781848424548
Rating: 3.29 (8 reviews)

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Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

British Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers find 'Fred And Madge' to be hysterically funny and clever, highlighting Joe Orton's wit and missed opportunities in his writing career. The play is praised for its inventive humor that some believe precedes Monty Python's style. Enthusiastic audiences appreciate the cleverness and the intimate setting of the performance.

Hysterically funnyWaspishly cleverInventive humorNone noted, overwhelmingly positive

Synopsis

Joe Orton's brilliantly inventive and staggeringly bold first play.

Fred and Madge are a normal couple.

Or so we think until a director and an audience member start interrupting and reworking this play within a play.

Exhilaratingly subversive, the play includes the destruction of the Festival Hall, professional insulters intent on purging society with laughter and a dystopian England overgrown with marigolds.

Full of biting satire and sardonic wit, it mingles astutely observed social realism with myth: Fred's job is to push boulders up a hill, and Madge's is to sieve water.

Written in 1959, Fred & Madge finally received its premiere in 2014 at the Hope Theatre, London.

ThemesMarried people Married people--Drama