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Harvey Plays: 1: Beautiful Thing; Babies; Boom Bang-A-Bang; Rupert Street Lonely

Harvey Plays: 1: Beautiful Thing; Babies; Boom Bang-A-Bang; Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club Paperback - 1999

by Jonathan Harvey

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From the publisher

Jonathan Harvey's most popular plays collected in one volume for the first time.

Contains the smash hit plays Beautiful Thing - a bittersweet tale of the joys and trials of living cheek-by-jowl in a Thamesmead housing estate; Babies - based on the playwright's experiences as a teacher which was 'mercilessly robbed from a particular night when I arrived at a pupil's birthday party to be entertained by a drag queen dressed as the Queen'; The Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club - set among the low-life of Soho, centring on the Marti, a gay man of a certain age, who can't believe that anyone might fancy him; and Boom Bang-A-Bang - a play about a gathering to view the Eurovision song contest.

Details

  • Title Harvey Plays: 1: Beautiful Thing; Babies; Boom Bang-A-Bang; Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club
  • Author Jonathan Harvey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berg 3pl, United Kingdom
  • Date 1999-01-01
  • ISBN 9780413724502 / 0413724506
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.04 x 4.37 x 1.04 in (17.88 x 11.10 x 2.64 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Gay men, England
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00300718
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.914

About the author

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).