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A musical based on the lives of playwright Joe Orton and his lover and murderer Kenneth Halliwell. Beginning on the day they met, and continuing to the day they died 16 years and two months later, Orton fizzes with their ambitions for success and celebrity, and charts the rise in Joe's fame that increasingly eclipsed Kenneth's role in it. Their relationship barely made it past the 1967 Sexual Offences Act which decriminalised gay sex: they were dead in August that year. Orton captures the lies and despair, as well as the humour and bravado, of these prickly, abrasive, funny and brilliant young men.

Creatives/Company

Book by(s): Richard Silver, Sean J Hume
Music(s): Richard Silver, Sean J Hume
Lyrics(s): Richard Silver, Sean J Hume

What's On By Year ...

Archive listings for Orton the Musical (2014)

Work type: Musical.

T0756458267

Company Above the Stag Theatre Company. Director Tim McArthur. Design Andy Holton. Lighting Chris Withers. Choreographer Phil Aiden. Costume Fi Russell. Musical Director Chris Huntley. Performer Kate Brennan (Tina). Performer Valerie Cutko (Mrs C and Peggy Ramsay). Performer Richard Dawes (Joe Orton). Performer Millie Dunn (Emily Hardy). Performer Simon Kingsley (Kenneth Williams). Performer Robert McNeilly (Trevor). Performer Andrew Rowney (Kenneth Halliwell).

2 Apr 14 to 4 May 14

Above the Stag Theatre, Inner London :: V0909222884
listing details L804454815

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