The Line of Beauty offers a fascinating insight into 1980s queer life in London – review
You may already be familiar with The Line of Beauty – this stage adaptation is based on Alan Hollinghurst’s classic queer novel which won the Booker Prize in 2004 – but if not, it tells the tale of Nick Guest, a young and impressionable gay man who has moved to London in 1983. Throughout the mid-1980s we watch a range of issues clash – politics, race, class, homophobia – set against a backdrop of the unfolding AIDS crisis. The story has been adapted for stage by Jack Holden (who brought…
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