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John Lahr on Joe Orton: 'He'd only just found his voice when he was killed' by Alex Needham

The man behind the only definitive account of Joe Orton's life and death talked to me about what inspired him to write it " and the motives behind the playwright's murderBefore I'd ever seen a Joe Orton play I'd read Prick Up Your Ears, John Lahr's masterful biography of the playwright. Lahr was back on Orton's north London stamping ground last week, discussing the playwright with psychoanalyst Don Campbell at Isling…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:25AM on February 14, 2012

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