The Orton Diaries

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Kemp is all groin and grins in the hilarious first act before showing how the playwright’s ravenous eye becomes simply cruel – his flashes of misogyny and racism, his poisonous self-regard. Administered to sexually by “boys” in Tangiers, he can only muse boastfully on his status as a celebrated playwright. Meanwhile, Osmond brings revelatory nuances to Halliwell. His penetrating stare may be fearsome but his pain is always intensely human, so that we never forget the cost to him of each laugh. Halliwell insisted in his suicide note that his partner’s diaries would explain all. They didn’t. This production, however, comes that bit closer.

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Vanessa Feltz shows off her 2st weight loss in a glam embellished dress at the London Lifestyle Awards - eight months after her split from singer Ben Ofoedu His diaries and plays are examined, and those who knew him and his works best are interviewed, 50 years after his murder. Orton was born in Leicester in 1933 and murdered by his artist lover, Kenneth Halliwell, in 1967, at the age of 34. The memorial to the radical playwright — the first statue in Britain to commemorate an openly gay working-class man — was due to be erected in his home town, appropriately enough in Orton Square, a pedestrian concourse by the city’s Curve theatre.Success finally came in 1964 when Orton's first play, The Ruffian On The Stair, was broadcast on BBC radio, followed by the screening on ITV of his second play, The Good And Faithful Servant, and the West End staging of Entertaining Mr Sloane. The Crown will portray Princess Diana as pregnant and will showMohamed Al-Fayed claiming she and Dodi were killed as part of an 'establishment plot', source claims

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