Prick Up Your Ears at The Lowry 31st August – 5th September

Matt Lucas stars in a darkly comic play about love, ambition and jealousy at The Lowry.

It's the 1960's and the eyes of the world are focused on London where new playwright Joe Orton is turning the theatre world on its head with his outrageous and hilarious new plays. But back in his tiny, cramped one room flat in Islington, his lover and former writing partner Keith Halliwell is not ready to be left behind…

The story of Joe Orton and Keith Halliwell has fascinated fans of the playwright for almost fifty years. Now a new play imagines what really happened in that flat in the days leading up to Halliwell's final revenge. Prick Up Your Ears has been written by Simon Bent and stars Little Britain's Matt Lucas in his first dramatic role for the stage.

Manchester audiences have the chance to see Matt Lucas in the role at The Lowry this August before the show transfers to the West End. Dripping with macabre humour and bitingly funny asides, Prick Up Your Ears is a hit in the making – get tickets now.