'I had a panic the night my mum came to see it': Jonathan Harvey on writing Beautiful Thing
'I wanted to write a play about two boys falling in love and give it a happy ending. During the Aids crisis, it was unusual for a gay character to be alive at the end of a drama' I wrote Beautiful Thing quickly in the summer of 1992. It came from the heart. The age of consent debate was going on " back then, gay men had to be 21 to have sex. The rhetoric used in parliament was so archaic, with words like "buggery" an…
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