Murder’s okay for a musical

 
Daily Mail
22 April 2014

The murder of Joe Orton by lover Kenneth Halliwell shook the 1960s theatre scene. Now a new work has found an unlikely genre through which to explore the pair’s last days. Orton the Musical, by Richard Silver and Sean J Hume, is currently running at the Above the Stag Theatre in Vauxhall.

“People often react by saying that surely it wouldn’t lend itself to that medium,” Hume said. “But to us it seemed a perfectly valid means of telling the story.”

Hume has Orton’s family onside. “Luckily, when we approached Joe’s sister Leonie, she agreed,” he said. “We feel sure Joe would approve of the way we’ve told their story.”

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