Download or read book Harvey Plays 1 written by Jonathan Harvey and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 - 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'; The Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club - set among the low-life of Soho, centring on the Marti, a gay man of a certain age, who can't believe that anyone might fancy him; and Boom Bang-A-Bang - a play about a gathering to view the Eurovision song contest.
Download or read book Book Bang A Bang Rupert St Lonely written by Jonathan Harvey and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 1995-12-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two gloriously bittersweet plays from the award-winning author of Beautiful Thing and Babies At 15 Rupert Street, Dean is in love with Marti who is in love with Shaun who is in lvoe with Juliet who is in Barbados. Meanwhile George is in love with Malcolm who has left and Clarine just love Jhesus and Zoe Wanamaker. Welcome to the Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club. Boom Bang-A-Bang is set in Kentish Town on Eurovision night 1995, Lee's first Eurovision party without Michael. He's joined instead by a small but far from select gathering of friends. As the atmosphere heats up reciminations and revelations fly and there will be blood, sweat and tears before the voting of the Belgian jury.
Download or read book Out In The Open written by Jonathan Harvey and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant new play from the writer of Beautiful Thing "What you don't know, don't hurt you" Tony's ready to live-it-large and love again. But his efforts to step back on to the scene are hampered by a secret his friends, Monica and Kevin, should have told him a long time ago. Out in the Open is a funny and caustic exploration of love and the limits of friendship set over a long, hazily hot summer weekend in London. Directed by Kathy Burke, Out in the Open premiered at London's Hampstead Theatre in March 2001 and transferred to Birmingham Rep.
Download or read book Beautiful Thing written by Jonathan Harvey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage boys Ste and Jamie are neighbours on a South London estate. Jamie is more knowledgeable about The Sound of Music than football, while classmate Ste never misses a sports day. Both are being bullied, Jamie at school and Ste at home by his violent father and brother. One night, when things get too much, Ste seeks refuge in Jamie's flat and, sharing a bed, the boys strike up a new relationship. Together they come to terms with their sexuality and explore their feelings alongside their Mama Cass loving, rebellious friend Leah and with the much-needed emotional support of Jamie's lioness mother, Sandra. Thirty years on from its initial publication, Jonathan Harvey's iconic, coming-out and coming-of-age story set in the nineties still resonates with ideas on community, friendship, rites of passage and what it is to be sixteen and in love. This edition is published to coincide with the revival at London's Stratford East theatre, in September, 2023.
Download or read book The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights written by Martin Middeke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights who have risen to prominence since the 1980s. Written by an international team of scholars, it will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary drama. Among the many playwrights whose work is examined are Sarah Daniels, Terry Johnson, Martin Crimp, Sarah Kane, Anthony Neilson, Mark Ravenhill, Simon Stephens, Debbie Tucker Green, Tanika Gupta and Richard Bean. Each essay features: A biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright A discussion of their most important plays An analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of British theatre A bibliography of texts and critical material
Download or read book Harvey Plays 2 written by Jonathan Harvey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of the latest plays from the writer of Beautiful Thing and TV's Gimme, Gimme, Gimme "JONATHAN HARVEY has an athletic and fantastical imagination, bawdy, funny and joyously blasphemous" Sunday Times GUIDING STAR: "Dry, funny, truthful, the writing buzzes with graceful perception and Scouse sarcasm...one of the best new plays of the year" Daily Mail HUSHABYE MOUNTAIN: "You would have to have a heart hewn from granite not to respond warmly to Jonathan Harvey's latest play" Guardian OUT IN THE OPEN: "A touching exploration of grief, the secrets and lies that evolve in friendships and the difficulty of telling the truth to those we love" The Times
Download or read book Canary written by Jonathan Harvey and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canary is multi-award winning playwright Jonathan Harvey's long-awaited return to the stage: a deeply moving, funny, unflinching, and often magical story about love, honesty and being brave enough to sing out at the top of your voice - with style. In 1960s Liverpool two lovers hide their homosexuality in the closet, then go their separate ways. While pits close and dole queues grow, a couple of runaways find Heaven in 1980s London. And today the paparazzi chase a love story that could tear a family apart. Then a grieving mother gets lost up a mountain, with a vicar for some dubious consolation. With a unique richness of texture and range, Canary combines pathos and humour with a wildly ambitious scope crossing decades through cyclical family histories. The diverse character list includes a primetime TV host, Queen Isabella, Eleanor Rigby, an 'aversion therary' doctor, Mary Whitehouse and striking miners. Skilfully pulling these wide-ranging threads together, Canary provides a social overview of Britain during the last 50 years, with a focus on the struggle against homophobia. Jonathan Harvey's trademark style of warmth, poignancy, humour and imagination is obvious in this epic, Liverpudlian Angels in America for the 21st century.
Download or read book Our Lady of Blundellsands written by Jonathan Harvey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's no secret that Sylvie is unravelling. Frozen in time in her Blundellsands house, she inhabits a fantasy world that never was. Garnet, her sister, is older and wiser – and wearier, with her shopping lists and tired love. She's always fanned the flames of Sylvie's fantasies. Because if she didn't... who knows where they'd both end up? But now the whole family's up in Liverpool for a birthday, and Garnet's got a secret of her own to pass on. There'll be a party... but it's not going to be pretty. Welcome to a family more messed up than your own.
Download or read book The Theatre Guide written by Trevor R. Griffiths and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 500 entries on the most important plays and playwrights performed today, The Theatre Guide provides an authoritative A - Z of the contemporary theatre scene. From Aristophanes to Mark Ravenhill, The Alchemist to The Talking Cure, the Guide is both biographically detailed and critically current, while an extensive cross-referencing system allows for wider perspectives and new discoveries. Stimulating, observant and informative, The Theatre Guide is an essential companion and reference tool for anyone with an active interest in drama.
Download or read book The Ivan R Dee Guide to Plays and Playwrights written by Trevor R. Griffiths and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the most useful and comprehensive reference book for contemporary theatre now available.
Download or read book Hushabye Mountain written by Jonathan Harvey and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 1999 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hushabye Mountain a group of friends are trying to come to terms with the death of a friend from AIDS. The play addresses their emotions and also those of the dead man as he explores the afterlife.
Download or read book Jonathan Harvey written by Jonathan Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Harvey has worked with the Royal Court and National theatres, written the sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme for television and collaborated with the Pet Shop Boys, writing the words to their musical Closer to Heaven. This book contains three of his plays.
Download or read book Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre written by Colin Chambers and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-05-14 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International in scope, this book is designed to be the pre-eminent reference work on the English-speaking theatre in the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, it consists of some 2500 entries written by 280 contributors from 20 countries which include not only top-level experts, but, uniquely, leading professionals from the world of theatre. A fascinating resource for anyone interested in theatre, it includes: - Overviews of major concepts, topics and issues; - Surveys of theatre institutions, countries, and genres; - Biographical entries on key performers, playwrights, directors, designers, choreographers and composers; - Articles by leading professionals on crafts, skills and disciplines including acting, design, directing, lighting, sound and voice.
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