Diary of a Somebody review – stunning drama from Joe Orton’s journal

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Diary of a Somebody review – stunning drama from Joe Orton’s journal
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The playwright’s relationship with Kenneth Halliwell is given new clarity in a play that is both hilarious and chilling

at the age of 34 by his lover Kenneth Halliwell. This play, pieced together by John Lahr from Orton’s journal as well as from correspondence and interviews, has often been overshadowed by the diaries themselves and by Stephen Frears’ 1987 film’s punchy new staging, its own merits and insights are inarguable. Distance helps: with Aids dominating gay life in the 1980s, and Clause 28 on the horizon, Orton’s priapic endeavours made him seem then like a purely heroic sexual swashbuckler.

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