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This adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s novel arrives freighted with the dismal ambition of being adapted from a much loved novel and also of becoming a great AIDS play - in the vein of The Inheritance or Angels in America. It...
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The Line of Beauty
The Line of Beauty is a portrait of Thatcher’s Britain at its most decadent and divisive, based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst written by rising star playwright Jack Holden.
London. Summer, 1983. Nick Guest moves into the grand Notting Hill home of his university friend Toby — and into the dazzling world of Toby’s father Gerald, a newly elected Tory MP, his elegant wife Rachel, and their troubled daughter Cat. From private gardens to country estates, glittering parties to political dinners, Nick is swept up in a world of money, power and privilege. A world that promises everything — and exacts a cost.
This show is on our Culture Curator Rupert’s ‘most-excited’ to see list.
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“I was lucky enough to see this at The Royal Court and it was unforgettable. John Lithgow transforms into a complex, curmudgeonly Roald Dahl and leaves you with your jaw on the floor by the play's end. Sophisticated in its writing, Giant is deceptively witty, haunting and timely.”
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