The Line of Beauty – Almeida Theatre

THE LINE OF BEAUTY REVIEW

ALMEIDA THEATRE – UNTIL 29th NOVEMBER 2025 REVIEWED BY JACKIE THORNTON 4**** 1980s Thatcher Britain is the backdrop for Jack Holden’s hugely entertaining and moving adaptation of Allan Hollinghursts 2004 Man Booker Prize-winning novel. With a nostalgic soundtrack featuring Frankie Goes To Hollywood and The Communards, we’re catapulted back into an upper-class world where image and money are everything. It’s here Oxford graduate and Henry James …

The Line of Beauty – Almeida Theatre

Alan Hollinghurst’s 2004 novel The Line of Beauty takes its title from William Hogarth’s work on the empirical analysis of aesthetics. Its protagonist, Nick Guest, is obsessed with this idea of beauty; he drifts from gorgeous lover to gorgeous lover, coming alive only for sex and conversations about Henry James; he is enticed by the lifestyle of the wealthy, but doesn’t quite belong in their world. The Almeida’s adaptation of the novel grapples …

The Line of Beauty – Almeida, London

Writer: Jack Holden Director: Michael Grandage Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker-winning novel is a thickly layered examination of politics, queer life, art, literature, race and AIDS. It must have been tricky for Jack Holden to adapt the book into a modern-day drawing-room play. And even though many of Hollinghurst’s ideas are omitted, Holden succeeds by presenting the [...] The post The Line of Beauty – Almeida, London appeared first on The Reviews H…