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Prick Up Your Ears is a new play by Simon Bent based on the real life story of renowned playwright Joe Orton and his relationship with Kenneth Halliwell. It is inspired exclusively by the John Lahr biography and the original diaries of Joe Orton.

1962. Halliwell and Orton - RADA graduates, aspiring writers, 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, and acting out their own versions of popular radio dramas... But Joe is about to become the most notorious comic playwright since Oscar Wilde, whilst Ken is reduced to sharing Joe's success with their neighbour Mrs Corden over tea and battenburg.

This darkly funny and moving play imagines the sensational story behind Joe and Ken's domestic life, trading well-trodden insults and hilarious put-downs like any old
married couple.