Fred & Madge

This is Joe Orton's brilliantly bold and inventive 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 also mingles astutely observed social realism with myth ...

Fred's job is to push boulders up a hill

And Madge's job is to sieve water

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

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"Here are the seeds of the later Orton plays" ~ Philip Hoare, Observer