Jonathan Harvey’s most popular plays collected in one volume for the first time.Contains the smash hit plays Beautiful Thing – a bittersweet tale of the joys and trials of living cheek-by-jowl in a Thamesmead housing estate; Babies – based on the playwright’s experiences as a teacher which was ‘mercilessly robbed from a particular night when I arrived at a pupil’s birthday party to be entertained by a drag queen dressed as the Queen’; The Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club – set among the low-life of Soho, centring on the Marti, a gay man of a certain age, who can’t believe that anyone might fancy him; and Boom Bang-A-Bang – a play about a gathering to view the Eurovision song contest.