Orton, a new British musical

Orton, a new British Musical by Richard Silver and Sean J Hume

The story of the controversial 1960’s playwright Joe Orton and long time lover, collaborator and eventual murderer Kenneth Halliwell

Starting the day they met, and continuing to the day they died, 16 years later, Orton the Musical fizzes with their ambitions for success and celebrity…and the lies, despair and chaos which emerge as Joe’s rising fame eclipses Kenneth’s ambitions. This is the story of two prickly, abrasive, funny and brilliant young men set against a London backdrop of the 1960’s social and sexual revolution.