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GREAT SEATS ONLY £25!

Prick Up Your Ears has been receiving fantastic reviews on tour...

'Awards will follow' Richmond Live

Matt Lucas is utterly convincing'Richmond and Twickenham Times

'Matt Lucas and Chris New sparkle as Kenneth Halliwell and
Joe Orton and Gwen Taylor is superb as Mrs Cordon' Richmond Live

'Wickedly funny' Manchester Messenger

'A remarkable piece of theatre' Brighton Argus

Matt Lucas plays Kenneth Halliwell alongside Chris New as playwright Joe Orton and
Gwen Taylor as Mrs Corden, in Daniel Kramer's production of Prick Up Your Ears, a new play by
Simon Bent inspired exclusively by the John Lahr biography and the 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.

*Valid Tues - Fri performances and Sunday matinees until 23 October
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