Beautiful Thing, groundbreaking gay play, to enjoy West End revival
Jonathan Harvey's play returns 20 years after its debut with producers hoping it will speak just as powerfully to audiencesWhen Jonathan Harvey wrote Beautiful Thing, the gay age of consent was 21, section 28 was in place, and if there was a working-class gay character on TV he almost certainly "would end up becoming a rent boy".Twenty years on much has changed but producers of a new West End production of what was a…