Prick Up Your Ears

Prick Up Your Ears by John Lahr

The Biography of Joe Orton

John Lahr's 1978 biography tells the wildly entertaining and compelling story of the incomparable 1960's British playwright Joe Orton, who was murdered at the age of 34.

It’s hard to imagine anything more tragic than an artist struck down in the prime of their life, just as they are about to fulfill their greatest potential. And when the tragic story is told as brilliantly as John Lahr’s Prick Up Your Ears, the impact is all the more powerful.

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