Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Funeral Games is a 60 minute play by Joe Orton. It was his final television play, and was first performed after his death.It was written for Yorkshire Television, and broadcast on August 26, 1968 as part of their series of dramas based on The Seven Deadly Virtues.Funeral Games followed the general format of the other plays in the series The Seven Deadly Virtues (by other playwrights), in that viewers were supposed to decide which virtue they were witnessing before the answer was revealed in the closing credits. The choices available were justice, prudence, temperance, courage (fortitude), faith, hope and charity. Funeral Games can be seen as a satire on the theme of Christian charity. It is also an attack on hypocrisy in general, and on religion and middle-class morality in particular.The play displays Orton's hallmarks of black humour, outrageous characters, deliberate bad taste and surreal situations."@en }
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- Funeral_Games_(play) abstract "Funeral Games is a 60 minute play by Joe Orton. It was his final television play, and was first performed after his death.It was written for Yorkshire Television, and broadcast on August 26, 1968 as part of their series of dramas based on The Seven Deadly Virtues.Funeral Games followed the general format of the other plays in the series The Seven Deadly Virtues (by other playwrights), in that viewers were supposed to decide which virtue they were witnessing before the answer was revealed in the closing credits. The choices available were justice, prudence, temperance, courage (fortitude), faith, hope and charity. Funeral Games can be seen as a satire on the theme of Christian charity. It is also an attack on hypocrisy in general, and on religion and middle-class morality in particular.The play displays Orton's hallmarks of black humour, outrageous characters, deliberate bad taste and surreal situations.".