The career of Joe Orton is precisely three plays long, but those plays have had an enormous influence on the British theatre.
The Leicester-born playwright intended to shock audiences when his work was first performed in the 1960s - and he certainly succeeded.
But he was also screamingly funny, as audiences at the Beaufort Theatre will discover when his great comedy Loot arrives on Tuesday.
Beginning with farce, as Hal and Dennis try to hide the cash from a successful bank robbery from relatives, the law and each other in a coffin.
The twist is that the coffin should be holding Hal's mother - and when it is returned to the house, and a very strange police inspector arrives, the play moves beyond black farce to a brilliantly twisted exploration of morality and those who lack it.
Performed by Fluellen Theatre Company, Loot is at the Beaufort Theatre in Ebbw Vale on Tuesday.
Tickets are £8 or £6.50 concessions and the show starts at 7.30pm. Box office 01495 350360.
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