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Starring:
Con O'Neill and Chris New (Best Newcomer nomination, Evening Standard).
Producer:
Directed by Daniel Kramer
Writer:
Simon Bent
Con O'Neill is to replace Matt Lucas in the role of Kenneth Halliwell in Daniel Kramer's production of Prick Up Your Ears at the Comedy Theatre. O'Neill will join Chris New who plays Joe Orton and Gwen Taylor as their neighbour in Simon Bent’s new play from 22 October 2009.
Olivier award-winning and Tony award-nominated Con O'Neill played legendary record producer and maverick musical genius Joe Meek in Nick Moran’s Telstar both on stage at the New Ambassadors Theatre, and recently on screen alongside a cast including Pam Ferris, James Corden and Kevin Spacey. Last week Telstar was also released on DVD.
1962. Halliwell and Orton - RADA graduates, aspiring writers, and sometime lovers - plot their rightful place at the center 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.
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