1962. Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton - RADA graduates, aspiring playwrights, and sometime lovers - plot their rightful place at the centre 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. But after a short interlude at Her Majesty's pleasure, Joe is about to become the greatest, and most notorious comic playwright since Oscar Wilde, whilst Ken stays indoors re-decorating, reduced to sharing Joe's success with their neighbour, Mrs Corden, over tea and a slice of battenburg. Prick Up Your Ears - a darkly funny and moving play imagines what really happened when, after years of creative collaboration, the door slammed shut and Kenneth was home alone. It tells the sensational story behind the domestic life of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, holed up in a tiny flat in Islington, trading well-trodden insults and hilarious put-downs like any old married couple. Prick Up Your Ears website.T278596828Matt Lucas has permanently withdrawn from the production.Producer Sonia Friedman Productions. Producer Kim Poster (for Stanhope Productions). Producer Lee Menzies. Director Daniel Kramer. Design Peter McKintosh. Lighting Peter Mumford. Sound Gareth Owen. Performer Michael Chadwick (Kenneth Halliwell - until Oct 22). Performer Con O'Neill (Kenneth Halliwell - from Oct 22). Performer Chris New (Orton). Performer Gwen Taylor (Mrs Corden). | |
| 17 Sep 09 to 15 Nov 09 | The Harold Pinter Theatre, West End :: V386 listing details L01602098599 |
| 7 Sep 09 to 12 Sep 09 | Theatre Royal, Brighton :: V657 listing details L0816820718 |
| 31 Aug 09 to 5 Sep 09 | The Lowry, Salford :: V0655996499 listing details L01992872380 |
| 26 Aug 09 to 29 Aug 09 | Richmond Theatre, Outer London :: V327 listing details L02002638938 |
