In this play Malcolm Scrawdyke, a Hitlerite figure, plots revenge against authority for his college expulsion by forming the Party of Dynamic Erection with his three acolytes.
Taken up by producer Michael Codron and reduced to a more manageable length, John Hurt now featured as the character in a West End production.
Its stated aim reflected the radical politics of the time: "a new kind of organisation in which the means of production are owned, controlled and developed by the artists whose work is being produced".
It was a form of "devised theatre" which Mike Leigh, recalling Halliwell in 2015, thought his friend's personality was incompatible: "His relationship with the actors wasn’t about growing and enabling, but about dictating, so the plays were always somewhat inorganic.
[8][9] In 1967, A Who's Who of Flapland starring Alfred Marks and Wilfred Pickles was broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, beginning Halliwell's long association with radio plays.
[12] Halliwell researched the professional relationship of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, both involved in the discovery of DNA, in the 1980s,[13] but his work was not completed, although the recordings of people he interviewed have been preserved.
[13] He contributed several television scripts to several of the BBC's anthology series, including Play for Today, and wrote (an unproduced serial) for Doctor Who.