SOURCE: Walcot, Peter. “An Acquired Taste: Joe Orton and the Greeks.” In Legacy of Thespis: Drama Past and Present, Vol. 4, edited by Karelisa V. Hartigan, pp. 99-123. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1984.

In the following essay, Walcot discusses the “Greek” character of both Orton's work and his relationship with Kenneth Halliwell.

I always say to myself that the theatre is the Temple of Dionysus, and not Apollo. You do the Dionysus thing on your typewriter, and then you allow a little Apollo in, just a little to shape and guide it along certain lines you may want to go along. But you can't allow Apollo in completely.¹

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