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Matt Lucas and Chris New are set to star in Simon Bent's Prick Up Your Ears. Inspired by the John Lahr biography and the diaries of playwright Joe Orton, the play will examine the private lives of Kenneth Halliwell and Orton. Directed by Daniel Kramer, performances begin at the West End's Comedy Theatre on September 17.
In 1962, Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton—RADA graduates, aspiring playwrights and sometimes lovers—plot their rightful place at the center of London's literary scene whilst engaged in a secret crusade to "improve" the local library books, all in the worst possible taste of course, and acting out their own versions of popular radio dramas with an extra dash of innuendo. After a short interlude at Her Majesty's pleasure, Joe is about to become the greatest and most notorious comic playwright since Oscar Wilde, while Ken stays indoors redecorating, reduced to sharing Joe's success with their neighbor Mrs. Corden. A darkly funny and moving play, Prick Up Your Ears imagines what really happened when after years of creative collaboration, the door slammed shut and Kenneth was home alone.
Chris New
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Lucas will star as Kenneth Halliwell. He is best known as co-creator of the international hit comedy, Little Britain. On stage, he has been seen in Little Britain Live, Taboo and Troilus and Cressida. His film work includes Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Shaun of the Dead, Cold and Dark, Plunkett and Macleane and Jilting Joe. New will play Joe Orton. His stage credits include Amazonia, Bent, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Hayfever and The Reporter.
Prick Up Your Ears is being produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Kim Poster for Stanhope Productions and Lee Menzies, with full support of the Orton Estate. Further casting and creative team are to be announced.
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