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Prick Up Your Ears Con O'Neill plays alongside Chris New as playwright Joe Orton in Daniel Kramer's production of Prick Up Your Ears, a new play by Simon Bent. ![]() 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 Show Information Booking To: 6th December, 2009 Matinees: Saturday 2.30pm Sunday 4:00pm Evenings: Tuesday to Saturday 7.30pm Comedy Theatre Information Comedy Theatre Seating Plan |
Comedy Theatre 6 Panton Street, London, SW1Y 4DN CLICK HERE FOR ON-LINE STREETMAP Nearest Underground: Piccadilly Circus Bus Routes: 14, 19, 22, 24, 29, 38, 40, 176 Nearest Rail: Charing Cross, London Victoria and Waterloo |
Comedy Theatre Directions: Take the Bakerloo or Piccadilly line to Piccadilly Circus. Exit onto Haymarket. The theatre is approximately 5 minutes walk. Infra Red Wheelchair access Air-Conditioned |