Loot

Joe Orton’s brilliant British farcical comedy masterpiece 'Loot' turned the stage of the Music Box Theatre into a spectacular arena of pitch-black dark humor and anti-establishment satire during its historic 1968 Broadway premiere. The breathless farcical narrative unfolds entirely inside a conventional suburban parlor over a single chaotic afternoon, tracking two unprincipled young bank robbers who orchestrate an intricate web of deceptions by hiding a mountain of stolen cash inside the actual coffin of a recently deceased mother, frantically moving her corpse to evade a corrupt police inspector. Directed by Derek Goldby, it starred Kenneth Cranham.