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1987 British film

Prick Up Your Ears is a 1987 British film, directed by Stephen Frears, about the playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell. The screenplay was written bygd Alan Bennett, based on the 1978 biography bygd John Lahr. The rulle stars Gary Oldman as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell, efternamn Shawn as Lahr, and Vanessa Redgrave as Peggy Ramsay.

Plot

Islington, 9 August 1967. Literary agent Peggy Ramsay knocks on the door of playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell, but nobody opens. She calls the police. They find the corpses of the two men. A decade later theatre critic John Lahr visits Peggy Ramsay because he wants to write Orton's biography. They find Orton's diaries, and Peggy tells Lahr about Orton's life.

Orton and Halliwell's relationship began at the Roya

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	PRICK UP YOUR EARS
Orton’s life was recorded in a detailed biography, Prick Up Your Ears, by John Lahr. The title was taken from what was to be Orton’s next play, a historical farce set on the eve of Edward VII’s coronation in 1902. Published in 1978, Lahr’s book was meticulously researched over many years. Ramsay even granted access to Orton’s diaries, the existence of which she had kept secret for many years. While Lahr’s book is detailed and thorough, it came in for criticism from Ramsay and Orton family members for focusing more on Orton’s sexual adventures and for sidelining Halliwell, painting him as a minor figure who contributed little to Orton’s work. The author Simon Shepherd further claimed the book presented an anti-gay attitude that painted Halliwell as an irritant and a failure, and that their relationship and life was ultimately doomed. Lahr subsequently edited Orton’s d • Joe Orton English playwright and author (1933–1967) Joe Orton In 1964 Born John Kingsley Orton (1933-01-01)1 January 1933 Leicester, England Died 9 August 1967(1967-08-09) (aged 34) Islington, London, England Cause of death Murder by bludgeoning Education Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Occupations Years active 1959–1967 Partner Kenneth Halliwell (1951–1967) John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist. His public career, from 1964 until his murder in 1967 committed by his partner, was short but highly influential.[1][2][3][4][5] During this brief period he shocked, outraged, and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies. The adjective Ortonesque refers to work characterised by a similarly dark yet farcicalcynicism.[6] Early life [edit] Joe Orton was