What the Butler Saw (play)

What the Butler Saw
original window card, Whitehall Theatre, 1975
Written by	Joe Orton
Date premiered	27 January 1969
Place premiered	Queen's Theatre London, England
Original language	English
Subject	a couple succeed in extracurricular seductions and frantically try to hide their conquests
Genre	Farce
Setting	an examination room in a private clinic

What the Butler Saw is a two-act farce written by the English playwright Joe Orton. He began work on the play in 1966 and completed it in July 1967, one month before his death.^[1] It opened at the Queen's Theatre in London on 5 March 1969. Orton's final play, it was the second to be performed after his death, following Funeral Games in 1968.