Meeting Mr. Sloane in the local library, lonely middle-aged Kath decides he would be the perfect lodger for the spare room. True, he doesn’t have much money, but she’s sure they can come to some mutually beneficial arrangement. When her brother Ed reveals that he too has designs on the lad, Sloane is wily enough to play the siblings off against each other. Only the suspicions of their father, Kemp, threaten this very cosy situation, but maybe even that can be sorted.
Subversively slipping this Oedipal sex-farce past the ever-watchful eye of the censor in 1964, Joe Orton raised innuendo to new and thrilling heights. Written on the cusp of the sexual revolution, Entertaining Mr Sloane is a gloriously witty romp full of sly sexiness and racy naughtiness.
