Plays, Vol. 1: Beautiful Thing / Babies / Boom Bang-a-Bang / Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club

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 cheekbyjowl 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 lowlife of Soho, centring on the Marti, a gay man of a certain age, who can't believe that anyone might fancy him; and Boom BangABang a play about a gathering to view the Eurovision song contest.