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Category : "Prick Up Your Ears"
Matt Lucas
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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. ...
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