Regarded as Joe Orton's finest play, What the Butler Saw is considered today as a contemporary classic. Written in 1967, Orton's last play was first presented in March 1969, a year and a half after his death. The title of the play implies voyeurism and has appalled and enraged certain audiences with its blatant sexual overtones, attacks on authority and conventional morality via its invitation to view other people's sexuality and sexual identity as a voyeur. From the first minutes of this black comedy, the farce is unleashed with continuous shifts into sexual and psychological exploitation, blackmail and bribery.

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