{"id":283,"date":"2014-10-30T08:55:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T08:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/?p=283"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:42","slug":"literary-leicester-unveiling-joe-ortons-entertaining-mr-sloane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/2014\/10\/30\/literary-leicester-unveiling-joe-ortons-entertaining-mr-sloane\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Leicester: Unveiling Joe Orton&#8217;s Entertaining Mr Sloane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2014\/10\/image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-288\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2014\/10\/image-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Literary Leicester<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>14 November, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.30, Special Collections Reading Room, David Wilson Library<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unveiling Joe Orton\u2019s <em>Entertaining Mr Sloane<\/em>: A Commemorative Pot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To mark the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Leicester-born writer Joe Orton\u2019s first stage play, his sister Leonie Orton Barnett will unveil a pot specially commissioned for the David Wilson Library from local ceramicist Rachel Barnett, Orton\u2019s niece.<\/p>\n<p>The pot reflects the play\u2019s central themes and features quotations from the characters. Its \u2018Ortonesque\u2019 style mirrors the author\u2019s trademark combination of humour and horror. For example, the handles consist of a set of false teeth.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Emma Parker of the School of English, who produced a 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary edition of <em>Entertaining Mr Sloane<\/em> earlier this year, said: \u2018This wonderful pot not only commemorates the play but will ignite new interest in Orton\u2019s work and entice people into the Orton archive.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Come along and be the first to see the latest addition to the library\u2019s growing collection of contemporary art and celebrate the play that launched Orton\u2019s career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literary Leicester 14 November, 2014 1.30, Special Collections Reading Room, David Wilson Library Unveiling Joe Orton\u2019s Entertaining Mr Sloane: A Commemorative Pot To mark the 50th anniversary of Leicester-born writer Joe Orton\u2019s first stage play, his sister Leonie Orton Barnett will unveil a pot specially commissioned for the David Wilson Library from local ceramicist Rachel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-events","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}