Contemporary Dramatists

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.