The Line of Beauty is playing at the Almeida Theatre

The Line of Beauty at the Almeida review and star rating: ★★★★

Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty is considered alongside The Normal Heart and Angels in America to be one of the seminal queer texts confronting the AIDS pandemic. It won the Man Booker Prize in 2004 but is more interested in queer joy than fixating on the misery, aligning it with Russell T Davies’ landmark pandemic-era Channel 4 drama It’s A Sin.

Jack Holden and Michael Grandage’s horny, hilarious production surely stages every single internal desire of the text’s yearning protagonist Nick Guest; its bulging, popping, flexing male cast catwalking the Almeida stage to the thunderous beats of the era with only scraps of clothing protecting their modesty.

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