Beautiful Thing Tour Cast Announced

Vanessa Babiyre, Thomas Law, Sam Jakson, Charlie Brooks and Gerard McCarthy in Bautiful Thing. Photo: Anton Belmonte

STOP PRESS: The UK Tour of Beautiful Thing will close after it plays Northampton and Leicester. For further information please see our news post. Full casting has been announced for Nikolai Foster’s celebrated anniversary production of Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, which will return to the UK in 2015 with an 18 week UK tour, opening in Canterbury in March, then visiting Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham, Northampton, Leicester, High Wycombe, Cardiff and Brighton, with a West End run to be announced. Beautiful Thing is a glorious urban love story between two young men set on an inner city housing estate. It tells the story of teenager Jamie’s relationship with classmate and neighbour, Ste. Together the two boys find comedy, warmth and the music of Mama Cass through their loud-mouthed next door neighbour Leah. Jonathan Harvey combines comedy with drama in his critically acclaimed award winning play. Beautiful Thing truly captures what it … Read more