

Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Dan Gillespie Sells
THE STORY: Jamie and Ste (short for Steve) are teenage neighbors in a working-class housing project in London.
Jamie is bookish and shy while Ste is more athletic.
Neither one has an ideal home life: Jamie's mother Sandra is bitter over her financi
"Only a theatergoer with an ice cube where his heart should be would remain indifferent to the plight of Jamie and Ste, the teen-age heroes of BEAUTIFUL THING, Jonathan Harvey's endearing, lopsided smile of a comedy about a boy who falls for the boy next door…warm and rewarding“ —The New York Times. ”A sharp, tart English comedy of manners…“ —New York Post. ”Deliciously upbeat…seldom has there been a play which so exquisitely and joyously depicts what it's like to be sixteen, in the first flush of love and full of optimism. Truly a most unusual and beautiful thing.“ —The Guardian (UK). ”This is the most heartening working-class comedy since A Taste of Honey."
— The Independent (UK)
Beautiful Thing is a British comedy play written by Jonathan Harvey and published by Methuen in New York (1999).
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