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Harvey Plays: 1: Beautiful Thing; Babies; Boom BangaBang; Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club: v. 1 (Contemporary Dramatists)

Harvey Plays: 1: Beautiful Thing; Babies; Boom BangaBang; Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club: v. 1 (Contemporary Dramatists)

by JonathanHarvey (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

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 is 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' and The Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club, set among the low-life of Soho centres on the character of Marti, a gay man of a certain age, who can't believe that anyone might fancy him; Boom Bang-A-Bang is about a gathering to view the Eurovision song contest.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 398
 Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 07 Jan 1999
ISBN 10: 0413724506
ISBN 13: 9780413724502

Author Bio
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).