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Beautiful Thing - Paperback

by Jonathan Harvey
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jonathan HarveySeries:Modern PlaysPublish date:2023-10-21Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:Methuen DramaISBN-13:9781350448711ISBN-10:1350448710UPC:9781350448711Book Category:Performing Arts, DramaBook Subcategory:Screenplays, Film, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:7.79 x 5.08 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCWFV3964Q

Teenage boys Ste and Jamie are neighbours on a South London estate. Jamie is more knowledgeable about The Sound of Music than football, while classmate Ste never misses a sports day. Both are being bullied, Jamie at school and Ste at home by his violent father and brother.

One night, when things get too much, Ste seeks refuge in Jamie's flat and, sharing a bed, the boys strike up a new relationship. Together they come to terms with their sexuality and explore their feelings alongside their Mama Cass loving, rebellious friend Leah and with the much-needed emotional support of Jamie's lioness mother, Sandra.

Thirty years on from its initial publication, Jonathan Harvey's iconic, coming-out and coming-of-age story set in the nineties still resonates with ideas on community, friendship, rites of passage and what it is to be sixteen and in love.

This edition is published to coincide with the revival at London's Stratford East theatre, in September, 2023.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Methuen DramaISBN-13:9781350448711ISBN-10:1350448710UPC:9781350448711Book Category:Performing Arts, DramaBook Subcategory:Screenplays, Film, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:7.79 x 5.08 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCWFV3964Q
Jonathan Harvey is an award-winning playwright, whose plays include The Cherry Blossom Tree (Liverpool Playhouse Studio), which won him the 1987 National Girobank Young Writer of the Year Award; Wildfire (Royal Court Theatre); Beautiful Thing (Bush Theatre, London and Donmar Warehouse/Duke of York's Theatre), winner of the John Whiting Award 1994; Babies (Royal National Theatre Studio/Royal Court Theatre), winner George Devine Award 1993 and Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award 1994; Boom Bang-A-Bang (Bush Theatre); Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club (English Touring Theatre/Contact Theatre Company, Donmar Warehouse/Criterion Theatre); Swan Song (Pleasance/Hampstead Theatre); Guiding Star (Liverpool Everyman/National Theatre); Hushabye Mountain (English Touring Theatre/Hampstead) and Out in the Open (Hampstead Theatre/Birmingham Rep). Television and film work includes: West End Girls (Carlton); Love Junkie (BBC); Beautiful Thing (Channel Four/Island World Productions); Gimme Gimme Gimme (BBC).
Publisher: Methuen Drama

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