Joe Orton
Playwright
Bacon Agonistes...tried and failed to get him to paint his portrait; William Burroughs, whom he admired and stayed friends with; and the playwright Joe Orton, soon to be done in by his murderous boyfriend. He also enjoyed the torturers in the local brothels. In this article: Francis Bacon, David Sylvester, Lucian Freud, Henry Fuseli, Pablo Picasso, and Michel Leiris |
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Chicago Tribune | 6 days ago
Nimble 'Mystery of Irma Vep' quick-changes the laughs at Court Theatre
Oh, yes. You will laugh your face off. Graney, a director who likes rolling the dice near the edge, fell afoul of the equally tricky Joe Orton ("What the Butler Saw") in this same theater not many shows ago. But he has curbed any...
In this article: Charles Ludlam, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Goodman Theatre, What the Butler Saw, Eric Campbell, and Olin Kreutz
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L.A. Times - Jacket Copy | November 19, 2009
L.A.'s Wordtheatre in London pairs Nick Hornby and Alfred Molina
That's him at his most striking, perhaps -- but to me he'll always be Kenneth Halliwell, the supportive/tortured partner of playwright Joe Orton in the biopic "Prick Up Your Ears." Although he's got the unavoidable Hollywood dreck on his resume...
In this article: Alfred Molina, London, Dr. Octopus, Spider Man 2, Los Angeles, and Los Angeles Times
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Playbill.com | November 12, 2009
Lisa Dillon and Simon Paisley Day Complete West End Casting for Private Lives
..."Bright Young Things," and on TV she played Mary Smith in the BBC's "Cranford." Day was last seen on the London stage in the revival of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane that played at the West End's Trafalgar Studios from Jan. to April...
In this article: Lisa Dillon, Private Lives, Desdemona, Matthew Macfadyen, Kim Cattrall, London, and Royal Shakespeare Company
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Guardian Unlimited | November 10, 2009
British theatre is wrong about Joe Orton James Martin Charlton
British theatre is wrong about Joe Orton | James Martin Charlton British theatre is wrong about Joe Orton The playwright and his lover Kenneth Halliwell led exceptionally brave and radical lives - something that plays about them fail to...
In this article: Kenneth Halliwell, Prick Up Your Ears, Literature, Loot, and What the Butler Saw
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Yahoo! News | November 06, 2009
Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton Expected to Star in 'Sweeney Todd' at U.K's Chichester Festival Theatre (Playbill)
...show, launching at Cardiff's Millennium Centre in March 2010. Staunton was last seen on the London stage in a new production of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane that ran at the Trafalgar Studios from January to April 2009. Other London...
In this article: Michael Ball, Imelda Staunton, London, Olivier Award, Oscar, Millennium Centre, and A Chorus of Disapproval
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Times Online | November 04, 2009
Prick Up Your Ears to close after tickets slump on Matt Lucas withdrawal
...withdrawal from Prick Up Your Ears, making the move permanent a week later. Lucas had played the emotionally demanding role of Joe Orton's gay lover, who bludgeoned the playwright to death and then killed himself in the 1960s. The...
In this article: Matt Lucas, Prick Up Your Ears, The Times, Suicide, Benedict Nightingale, and Facebook
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BBC News | November 04, 2009
Lucas West End play closes early
...O'Neill's performance, the box office sales have not been sufficient to keep the show going It tells the story of playwright Joe Orton and his lover Keith Halliwell. Lucas had been playing Halliwell in the production, which is based on a...
In this article: Con O'Neill, Matt Lucas, Prick Up Your Ears, Telstar, and John Lahr
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Chicago Tribune | October 29, 2009
Irish storytelling run amuck
...frenetic production, which has its amusements. But this is a very self-aware and post-modern show that lands somewhere between Joe Orton and Conor McPherson or even Tracy Letts. To a great extent, Walsh is not only deconstructing...
In this article: London, Ireland, Sausage, Normative, and Recession
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Times Online | October 26, 2009
Alan Bennett's real lives
...similarly titled West End play. He's a selfhating, woebegone figure as baffled as angered by the successes of Joe Orton, the cocksure lover he murdered. But there, as elsewhere, Bennett is also examining a culture that troubles him, an...
In this article: Alan Bennett, Kafka's Dick, Evelyn Waugh, The Wind in the Willows, Nigel Hawthorne, and Sausage
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | October 12, 2009
Georgia May Jagger doesn't want to be famous
...down yesterday on Matt Lucas's ill-starred performance in a serious stage role, playing Kenneth Halliwell to Chris New's Joe Orton in the play Prick Up Your Ears. It was announced that the Little Britain star would be replaced by Con...
In this article: Matt Lucas, Mick Jagger, Tina Brown, Hillary Clinton, Suicide, and Daily Beast
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Joe Orton (b. 1 January 1933 in Leicester - d. 9 August 1967 in Islington, London), born John Kingsley Orton, was an English playwright.
In a short but prolific career lasting from 1964 until his death, he shocked, outraged and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies. Ortonesque became a recognised term for "outrageously macabre".
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