Prick Up Your Ears is a celebration, even in tragedy, of outrageous British playwright Joe Orton's irreverent and charismatic talent, starring Gary Oldman as Orton and Alfred Molina as his lover, Kenneth Halliwell. It is the controversial story of one of the young turks of the 1960s - from working class boy to national celebrity, from sexual innocent to grinning satyr, from penniless student to peer of the Beatles and icon of London's swinging sixties. Orton made his success by mocking the rules of the establishment and lived his life ignoring them. But Orton's story is also the story of an unconventional marriage founded in love, lived as a farce and concluded in a fateful and all-consuming jealousy. They shared everything but fame. Death made them equal again.