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Sorry, Dame Judi, BBC Radio’s job is to find listeners, not train playwrights

The Observer 02 Feb 2025
The luminaries are incandescent. The unions are on the warpath ... In 1963, he discovered a playwright called Joe Orton, who had written a script while in jail on the charge of defacing library books with his lover Kenneth Halliwell ... Sign up to Observed ... .
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Bona contention: how gay men survived post-war Britain

Islington Tribune 31 Jan 2025
Brian Epstein and Kenneth Williams ... “Kenneth Williams rang ... Weeks later, on August 9 1967, Orton, 34, was bludgeoned to death by his live-in lover Kenneth Halliwell. Halliwell later killed himself by overdosing with sedative Nembutal.
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The Times Daily Quiz: Wednesday November 20, 2024

The Times/The Sunday Times 20 Nov 2024
Puzzles. Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. Crossword. Polygon. Sudoku. 1 “The nick” is slang for which place? ... 7 Kenneth Halliwell was the boyfriend and murderer of which English playwright? ... .
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Rare Joe Orton play revived at the Fringe

The Scotsman 01 Aug 2024
On 9 August 1967 Kenneth Halliwell bludgeoned his lover, playwright Joe ...
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The Showbuzz: Playhouse’s ‘Loot’ brings playwright Joe Orton’s razor-sharp wit to life

Press Telegram 13 Jun 2024
Sadly, his brilliant career was tragically cut short when he was murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell in 1967 at the age of 34 — just as he was gaining international recognition ... Despite his untimely death, Orton’s legacy endures ... If you go.
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The Low Culture Podcast: John & Luke On Prick Up Your Ears

The Quietus 12 Apr 2023
Then it’s on with the meat of the podcast, a discussion of 1987 film Prick Up Your Ears, Stephen Frears’ masterpiece about the lives and tragic deaths of playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell, played by Gary Oldman and Alfred Molina.
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Sex is part of LGBT history

Islington Tribune 03 Feb 2023
Campaigners in Highbury Fields in 2020, marking the 50th anniversary of the first Gay Liberation Front rally ... He added ... Allegedly, he was going to leave his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, who killed him and then took his own life.” ... Joe Meek ... ....
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‘Character actor’ Alfred Molina on day Harvey Weinstein swore at him

Belfast Telegraph 03 Dec 2022
He was Joe Orton’s nervy, desperate lover — and eventual killer — Kenneth Halliwell in Prick Up Your Ears ... Molina has played a couple of gay characters — as well as Halliwell, he played John Lithgow’s ...
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Alfred Molina Recalls Harvey Weinstein’s “Preposterous” Reaction to Salma Hayek’s ‘Frida’ Performance

The Hollywood Reporter 01 Dec 2022
At another point in the interview, Molina also addressed his previous stance on straight actors playing gay, after he played Kenneth Halliwell, the partner of playwright Joe Orton in 1987’s ...
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When even a cultural giant who is venerated by the Left is cancelled... what hope ...

The Daily Mail 29 Aug 2022
Orton was born in Leicester in 1933 and murdered by his artist lover, Kenneth Halliwell, in 1967, at the age of 34 ... Halliwell, who took his own life after murdering his lover, left a note blaming the ...
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