What the Butler Saw is a farcical play by English playwright, John Kingsley “Joe” Orton. First performed in 1969, after Orton’s death, the play is about a doctor in a psychiatric home who tries to ...

If a play is set in a psychiatric ward, it’s a good bet that one of its themes will be the issue of how sanity is defined. If the play is Joe Orton’s farce What the Butler Saw, set in a psychiatrist’s ...