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A lack of serious work led them to amuse themselves with pranks and hoaxes.

Orton created the alter ego Edna Welthorpe, an elderly theatre snob, whom he would later revive to stir controversy over his plays.

Orton chose the name as an allusion to Terence Rattigan's " Aunt Edna ", Rattigan's archetypal playgoer.