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Plays, Vol. 1: Beautiful Thing / Babies / Boom Bang-a-Bang / Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club | 
| Author: Jonathan Harvey
Publisher: Methuen Publishing, Ltd.
Category: Book
Buy New: $14.95
Rating:  2 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.4 x 1
ISBN: 0413724506
Dewey Decimal Number: 822.914
EAN: 9780413724502
ASIN: 0413724506
Publication Date: January 25, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews:
Harvey Early Years April 13, 2003
Staysun (Downers Grove, IL USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a collection of three of Jonathan Harvey's early plays in a small print paperback format. Few notes or extras but at least it puts the brilliant Harvey into more circulation. It is interesting to note the mixed focus of "Babies" and the dead-on sharp focus of "Beautiful Thing", the turning point in Harvey's career as a playwright. This volume is probably primarily intended for actors and directors.
The Late 1990's-2001 April 12, 2003
Staysun (Downers Grove, IL USA)
The next round of plays (in a small print paperback format) produced in Britain with the grand playwright Jonathan Harvey. "Hushabye Mountain" is a play that seems better with repeated readings. In "Out in the Open", Harvey returns to the playful conflicts and creative characters that made "Beautiful Thing" such a delight. Ideal for actors and directors.
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