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A play by British playwright [[Joe Orton]] first broadcast on BBC Radio in August 1964. It is an unsympathetic yet comedic one-act portrayal of working class England, as played out by a couple and a mysterious young man who toys with their lives. It was based on ''The Boy Hairdresser'', a novel by Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell.
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A play by British playwright [[Joe Orton]] first broadcast on BBC Radio in August 1964. It is an unsympathetic yet comedic one-act portrayal of working class England, as played out by a couple and a mysterious young man who toys with their lives. It was based on ''The Boy Hairdresser'', a novel by Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ruffian_on_the_Stair
  
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*** First (?*) staged in South Africa as a lunch time presentation at [[The Space]] (Cape Town) in 197*, directed by [[Bill Tanner]] with [[Yvonne Bryceland]], [[Bill Flynn]] and [[Ronald France]]. The stage manager was [[Bee Berman]].
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A play by British playwright Joe Orton first broadcast on BBC Radio in August 1964. It is an unsympathetic yet comedic one-act portrayal of working class England, as played out by a couple and a mysterious young man who toys with their lives. It was based on The Boy Hairdresser, a novel by Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ruffian_on_the_Stair



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