In April 1967, at the peak of his career as a dramatist, Joe Orton was murdered by his lover, Kenneth Halliwell. Arena presents a documentary portrait of the author of 'Loot' and 'Entertaining Mr Sloane', whose daring and sense of style added a new word - "Ortonesque" - to the English critical vocabulary. Although he was widely attacked for presenting the world as a bizarre and savage place, this film presents the case that Orton's life was, on occasion, quite as curious and extravagant as his work.