Beautiful Thing, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds & Donmar Warehouse, 1994
Cast: Mark Letheren, Sophie Stanton, Richard Bonneville, Amelda Brown, Shaun Dingwall. (Richard Bonneville would later change his first name to Hugh.)
Writer: Jonathan Harvey
Director: Hettie Macdonald
I was lucky enough to see this twice on tour. The ending with the boys dancing to Mama Cass under a mirrorball made me cry for days after I first saw it. The second time would have been my first visit to the Donmar Warehouse where the most expensive seats were £15 (they were £9.50 in Bury St Edmunds). I've seen it twice more since and it's one of those plays I'd definitely want to see whenever it's revived.
These are definitely keepers which forces me to think about how I'm going to store the things I'm keeping. Well eventually there will be spare plastic boxes and hopefully one of those will be enough but for now I'm using a plastic basket I couldn't resist buying but have no realistic use for at the moment:
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