Beautiful Thing
by Jonathan Harvey

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90 mins Unit Set/Multiple Settings British Comedy

Synopsis

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

Press Reviews

"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)

Publication

Publisher Methuen
Year 1999
Binding Unknown Binding
Pages 70
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822217176
ISBN-10 0822217171

Beautiful Thing is a British comedy play written by Jonathan Harvey and published by Methuen in New York (1999).

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