"a bit too contrived for me. Umm....I can't analyze it well...but it is dated as a play in that contrived style of comedy where the play relies on action and little on true character, nothing is real"
right, yes, ok
― thomp, Sunday, 5 July 2009 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Wasn't there a movie about him? Lahr was involved, I think. It was good.
Ah:
Prick Up Your Ears is a 1987 film about the playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell. The screenplay was written by Alan Bennett, based on the book by John Lahr. The film stars Gary Oldman as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell, Wallace Shawn as Lahr and Vanessa Redgrave as Margaret "Peggy" Ramsay.
The film was directed by Stephen Frears.
It would have been quite a feat to have turned out badly.
― Beth Parker, Sunday, 5 July 2009 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh yes, already discussed upthread, duh.
I would rewatch that.
Haven't seen any Orton work, though.
― Beth Parker, Sunday, 5 July 2009 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
But you can read the complete plays in a week or less and it will be worth it.
― bamcquern, Sunday, 5 July 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
thomp, yes, it was catching a bit of that "defacement" while watching prick up your ears that made me revive the thread. i'd just caught part of it on film4. it's a pretty decent film.
― jed_, Monday, 6 July 2009 12:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I have bought the complete works with one click.
― Beth Parker, Monday, 6 July 2009 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
50 years gone
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-40511985?SThisFB
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link