Harvey Plays: 2: Guiding Star; Hushabye Mountain; Out in the Open

by Jonathan Harvey

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474279208
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	04/21/2016
Series:	Contemporary Dramatists
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

Jonathan Harvey has written many award-winning plays and is one of today's hottest young writers. He wrote the screenplay for the film of his play Beautiful Thing and other screenplays for Carlton and the BBC. He also has written the successful TV sitcom, Gimme Gimme Gimme and the words to the Pet S hop Boys' musical Closer to Heaven.
Jonathan Harvey is an award-winning playwright, whose plays include The Cherry Blossom Tree (Liverpool Playhouse Studio), which won him the 1987 National Girobank Young Writer of the Year Award; Wildfire (Royal Court Theatre); Beautiful Thing (Bush Theatre, London and Donmar Warehouse/Duke of York's Theatre), winner of the John Whiting Award 1994; Babies (Royal National Theatre Studio/Royal Court Theatre), winner George Devine Award 1993 and Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award 1994; Boom Bang-A-Bang (Bush Theatre); Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club (English Touring Theatre/Contact Theatre Company, Donmar Warehouse/Criterion Theatre); Swan Song (Pleasance/Hampstead Theatre); Guiding Star (Liverpool Everyman/National Theatre); Hushabye Mountain (English Touring Theatre/Hampstead) and Out in the Open (Hampstead Theatre/Birmingham Rep). Television and film work includes: West End Girls (Carlton); Love Junkie (BBC); Beautiful Thing (Channel Four/Island World Productions); Gimme Gimme Gimme (BBC).

Table of Contents

Guiding Star; Hushabye Mountain; Out in the Open