BEAUTIFUL THING Arts Theatre

Jonathan Harvey’s urban fairy tale celebrates its 20th anniversary with a revival by Nikolai Foster. Two working-class boys, aged 16 and 15, begin to come to terms with their sexuality. Sensitively acted by Jake Davies and Danny-Boy Hatchard, the situation is as funny, and as sympathetic, and as sentimental as it always was; a fairy story, then, with just a bit, but not too much, urban grit. Harvey hopes this production will subtly provoke discussion and debate about domestic violence and bullying.