Will a New Staging of 'The Line of Beauty' Satisfy the Yuppies' 80s Nostalgia?

Will a New Staging of 'The Line of Beauty' Satisfy the Yuppies' 80s Nostalgia?

If Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities defined the 1980s in America, then Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty did the job for us here. Both novels captured the feeling of that decade – the heady materialism, unapologetic greed and the sense, too, that on both sides of the Atlantic a great many people had got into the business of selling out their countries, their values, and maybe also their souls. Feelings that find perfect expression on…