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Joe Orton:
[accepting a drama award]
My plays are about getting away with it, and the ones who get away with it are the guilty ones. It's the innocents who get it in the neck. But that all seems pretty true to life to me. Not a fantasy at all. I've got away with it *so far* [hoisting trophy] Joe Orton:
and I'm going to go on
[accepting a drama award]
My plays are about getting away with it, and the ones who get away with it are the guilty ones. It's the innocents who get it in the neck. But that all seems pretty true to life to me. Not a fantasy at all. I've got away with it *so far* [hoisting trophy] Joe Orton:
and I'm going to go on
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My plays are about getting away with it
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and the ones who get away with it are the guilty
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It's the innocents who get it in the neck
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But that all seems pretty true to life to me
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Not a fantasy at all
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I've got away with it so far
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and I'm going to go on
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Movie Summary
Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful.
