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 whilst engaged in a secret crusade to "improve" the local library books, all in the worst possible taste of course, and acting out their own versions of popular radio dramas... with an extra dash of innuendo.  But after a short interlude at Her Majesty's pleasure, Joe is about to become the greatest, and most notorious comic playwright since Oscar Wilde, whilst Ken stays indoors re-decorating, reduced to sharing Joe's success with their neighbour, Mrs Corden, over tea and a slice of battenburg.

Prick Up Your Ears - a darkly funny and moving play imagines what really happened when, after years of creative collaboration, the door slammed shut and Kenneth was home alone.   It tells the sensational story behind the domestic life of Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, holed up in a tiny flat in Islington, trading well-trodden insults and hilarious put-downs like any old married couple.

From 22nd October 2009, Prick Up Your Ears will star Con O'Neill, Chris New and Gwen Taylor. Directed by Daniel Kramer, designed by Peter McKintosh, lighting by Peter Mumford and sound by Gareth Owen.

Sonia Friedman Productions, Kim Poster for Stanhope Productions and Lee Menzies in association with Sean Sweeney present “PRICK UP YOUR EARS”.