Prick Up Your Ears

1962. Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton - RADA graduates, aspiring playwrights, and sometime lovers - plot their rightful place at the centre of London's literary scene. But while Joe becomes the greatest and most notorious comic playwright since Oscar Wilde, Ken's ambitions are thwarted and he is reduced to the role of Joe's housekeeper. Simon Bent's darkly funny and moving play tells the sensational story behind the domestic life of Joe and Ken, holed up in a tiny flat in Islington, trading well-trodden insults and hilarious put-downs like any old married couple.