Beautiful Thing

A touching, urban love story, full of warmth and humour.

Please Note: The entire performance including the audience will be on stage for an immersive and intimate experience, because of this the audience will only be able to access by using stairs.

14+ due to its content including sexual references and themes of young adolescent sexuality.

Teenage boys Ste and Jamie are neighbours. 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.

This revival of Jonathan Harvey’s iconic, coming-out and coming-of-age story, Beautiful Thing is about community, friendship, rites of passage and what it is to be sixteen and in love.

A Princes Acting Centre production. Written by Jonathan Harvey. Directed by Melissa Wenn