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Orton and Halliwell
Orton met Kenneth Halliwell at RADA in 1951 and moved into a West Hampstead flat with him and two other students in June of that year.
Halliwell was seven years older than Orton and of independent means, having a substantial inheritance.
After graduating, both Orton and Halliwell went into regional repertory work: Orton spent four months in Ipswich as an assistant stage manager ; Halliwell in Llandudno, Wales.
Confident of their " specialness ", Orton and Halliwell refused to work for long periods.
Orton and Halliwell felt that that sentence was unduly harsh " because we were queers ".
However, prison would be a crucial formative experience for Orton ; the isolation from Halliwell would allow him to break free of him creatively ; and he would clearly see what he considered the corruptness, priggishness, and double standards of a purportedly liberal country.
The book covers that Orton and Halliwell vandalised have since become a valued part of the Islington Local History Centre collection.
In March 1967 Orton and Halliwell had intended another extended holiday in Libya, but they returned home after one day because the only hotel accommodation they could find was a boat that had been converted into a hotel / nightclub.
Orton was working hard, energised and happy ; Halliwell was increasingly depressed, argumentative, and plagued with mystery ailments.
On 9 August 1967, Kenneth Halliwell bludgeoned 34-year-old Orton to death at his home in Islington, London, with nine hammer blows to the head, and then committed suicide with an overdose of 22 Nembutal tablets washed down with the juice from canned grapefruit.
He met friend Peter Nolan, who later gave evidence at the inquest that Orton told him that he had another boyfriend and wanted to end his relationship with Halliwell, but did not know how to go about it.
" According to Dennis Dewsnap's memoir, What's Sex Got To Do With It ( The Syden Press, 2004 ), Orton and Halliwell had their ashes mixed and were buried together.
Directed by Stephen Frears, it starred Gary Oldman as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell and Vanessa Redgrave as Peggy Ramsay.
He befriended gay playwright Joe Orton, who wrote the role of Inspector Truscott in Loot ( 1966 ) for him, and had holidays with Orton and his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, in Morocco.
A copy of Clouds of Witness was one of the volumes modified by Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell in their adulterations of library books from the Islington and Hampstead libraries in the early 1960s.
* August 9 – Joe Orton, dramatist, murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell
* The Last Days of Sodom, a novel jointly written by Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, is rejected.
* Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell are prosecuted and jailed for defacing library books.
Prick Up Your Ears is a 1987 film, directed by Stephen Frears, about the playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell.
The film stars Gary Oldman as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell, Wallace Shawn as Lahr and Vanessa Redgrave as Margaret " Peggy " Ramsay.

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