Seven Dials Playhouse, LondonThe playwright's relationship with Kenneth Halliwell is given new clarity in a play that is both hilarious and chilling 'I've high hopes of dying young," announces Joe Orton cheerfully in Diary of a Somebody. He got his wish: the author of barbed, subversive comedies such as Entertaining Mr Sloane and Loot was murdered in 1967 at the age of 34 by his lover Kenneth Halliwell. This play, pi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AM on March 31, 2022