Joe Orton

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...

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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...

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..."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...

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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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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