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Harvey Plays: 1 Jonathan Harvey

Harvey Plays: 1 By Jonathan Harvey

Harvey Plays: 1 by Jonathan Harvey


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

Harvey Plays: 1 Summary

Harvey Plays: 1: Beautiful Thing; Babies; Boom Bang-a-Bang; Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club by Jonathan Harvey

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.

About Jonathan Harvey

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).

Table of Contents

Beautiful Thing; Babies; Boom Bang-a-Bang; Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club

Additional information

GOR003381405
9780413724502
0413724506
Harvey Plays: 1: Beautiful Thing; Babies; Boom Bang-a-Bang; Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club by Jonathan Harvey
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
1999-01-07
400
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