Loot (play)

• Fay
• Hal
• Mr. McLeavy
• Truscott
• Meadows

Prey ( Original title: Loot ) is a spectacle of British playwright Joe Orton, which premiered on February 1, 1965 in Cambridge.

Action

Mrs. McLeavy is deceased and is laid out in the house. Your wealthy man is asked by the nurse Fay, who secretly already killed her seven previous husbands and Mrs. McLeavy has on his conscience, to the early remarriage.

McLeavy is already about to make her an application, as the son of Hal and his friend Dennis, who works at the funeral emerge. The two have robbed a bank and the money then hidden in the wardrobe, where Fay discovered it. In return for a share of the spoils, they conceal McLeavy the crime and helps the two to find another hiding place for the money. So she brings it under the coffin, while the corpse Mrs. McLeavys is stored in a closet.

The burial of the coffin filled with money is already in progress when the police commissioner appears Truscott has already suspicious. He tries the folks back home, Fay and Hal to drive with his questions into a corner. By chance he discovered the body in the closet, but Fay manages to convince him that it was to their Nähpuppe. Meanwhile, the funeral procession was involved in an accident and McLeavy returns with the damaged casket.

After further complications in the course of which the coffin is still often transported back and forth, Truscott finally discovered the money and identified the corpse as that Mrs. McLeavys. But he decides not to arrest the criminals, but to leave also participate in the spoils. Him there, the innocent McLeavy to blame in the shoes, so this ends up as a confidant in prison and there, as Fay suggests, should perish ideally succeed.

Intention

For " Booty " is a satirical farce, whose goal is to " ... illusions of bourgeois hypocrisy expose and the people, especially the representatives of public institutions to confront their own depravity ... " Hubert Zapf explained in " Knaurs large Acting leader. "

The various intricacies of the piece, which lead to multiple transport the coffin and also a repeated locker rooms of the body, are means of farce and irony to emphasize the social criticism. However, there is a risk that is covered by an exaggerated exaggeration just this criticism.

Performances

The German premiere took place on 9 March 1966 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, as well as Orton's first play, Be nice to Mr. Sloane, instead. Directed by Hans Günther Heyme.

2009 staged Herbert Fritsch and Tilman Raabke the René Pollesch newly translated piece at Theater Oberhausen.

2013, the production was re-listed on an exchange guest appearance in the garage X Theatre St. Peter's Square.

Films

The piece of loot was filmed in 1969 and appeared in Germany under the title "The biggest crooks far and wide ." Richard Attenborough played Truscott and Lee Remick Fay.

Criticism

" The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility -. "