John Lahr – Scripts on Screen https://scripts-onscreen.com Thu, 04 Feb 2016 23:48:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 https://scripts-onscreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-cropped-sos-logo-truesqr-32x32.png John Lahr – Scripts on Screen https://scripts-onscreen.com 32 32 Prick Up Your Ears Script https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/prick-up-your-ears-script-links/ Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:17:40 +0000 https://scripts-onscreen.com/movie/prick-up-your-ears-script-links/
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Year:1987
Director:Stephen Frears
Written by:Alan Bennett (Writer), John Lahr (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton moves to London in 1951, to study at RADA, and enjoys an openly gay relationship with Halliwell in their famous Islington flat in the 1960s. However, when Orton achieves spectacular success with such plays as 'What the Butler Saw' and 'Loot', Halliwell begins to feel alienated and the pair's future looks increasingly uncertain.
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