Theater an der Parkaue, Berlin
An urban fairy tale by Jonathan Harvey.                                                                                                                                                          

Translated from the English by Lisa Wegener
When Jonathan Harvey wrote "Beautiful Thing" in 1993, in the aftershocks of the AIDS crisis, LGBTQIA+ stories were characterised by the pain of the time. For Harvey, it was important to counter this with a queer romantic comedy that also tells of class and care work. This play was newly translated for the Parkaue. Director Babett Grube and her team used the production to open up a space in which an examination of fluid identity, community and of what a normative society ascribes to our bodies, can take place.

Director: Babett Grube
Stage: Camille Lacadee
Costumes: Andrea Barba
Music: houaïda
Artistic mediation: Soraya Reichl, Nils Erhard
With: Birgit Berthold, Salome Kießling, Claudia Korneev, Yazan Melhem, Andrej von Sallwitz