What the Butler Saw

The read

It runs a compact 1h 25m.

Synopsis

White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical 1969 play, in which the head psychiatrist of a lunatic asylum, when trying to conceal the attempted molestation of his new secretary from his wife, only succeeds in making himself (and everyone else) look completely round the bend.

Ratings

Key crew

• Barry DavisDirector
• Joe OrtonWriter

Cast

• Dinsdale LandenDr Prentice
• Prunella ScalesMrs Prentice
• Timothy WestDr Rance
• Tyler ButterworthNicholas Beckett
• Tessa Peake-JonesGeraldine Barclay
• Bryan PringleSergeant Match