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  1. To celebrate Orton’s comic genius, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Chris Shepherd created an animation inspired by the Edna Welthorpe letters. Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs) is an animated film by Chris Shepherd, exploring the character of Joe Orton's alter ego Edna Welthorpe.

  2. 22 nov 2017 · Arts on iPlayer. Bring the Drama Festival. Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs): A tribute to Joe Orton. 22 November 2017. Playwright Joe Orton used to write spoof letters of...

  3. 16 mag 2018 · Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs) Synopsis An animated tribute to Joe Orton marking the 50th anniversary of his death inspired by the prank letters of complaint that Orton penned under the pseudonym ‘Edna Welthorpe’.

    • About Joe Orton
    • Original Edna Welthorpe Letters – Extracts
    • New Edna Welthorpe Letters – Extracts

    Joe Orton’s three stage plays – Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964), Loot (1965) and What the Butler Saw(1969) – established him as one of the greatest dramatists of the twentieth century. These anarchic black comedies not only lampoon social and sexual conservatism, contributing to the new counterculture that defined the Swinging Sixties, but also blend...

    ‘…no one should seriously nominate as the play of the year a piece of indecent tomfoolery like Loot. Drama should be uplifting. The plays of Joe Orton have a most unpleasing effect on me. I was plunged into the dumps for weeks after seeing Entertaining Mr Sloane. I saw Lootwith my young niece; we both fled from the theatre in horror and amazement w...

    John-Luke Roberts, a British stand-up comedian – to Paul McCartney: Dear Mr McCartney, I am disgusted by the title of your album “Kisses On the Bottom”. Perhaps you will call me sheltered, but I had assumed the title referred to the infantile yet harmless act of placing an ‘x’ signifying a ‘kiss’ at the foot of personal correspondence. As I listene...

  4. In this short we see what mayhem ensues when Edna writes to Smedley Jams and Littlewood home catalogue service. Joe Orton would write letters of complaint using the… ‎Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs) (2017) directed by Chris Shepherd • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd