Hushabye Mountain (Methuendrama)

Rating:
Summary: Jonathan Harvey's finest play
Review: A funny, warm and genuinely moving play which deals with loss and how it affects relationships. The play, easily Harvey's most theatrical, deals essentially with Danny, a recently deceased 30 year old Liverpudlian, and his relationships with his brother, his best friend and his lover; and their relationship to one another. The story is told through a mix of fantastical heaven sequences, flash backs and current scenes; and features the usual array of larger than life camp characters, including Julie Andrews ("a chambermaid with exquisite diction") and Beryl (who is also "Judy Garland - Keeper of the Stars). In short this play should appeal to anyone interest in modern drama, but likes a more romantic, sentimental, not to mention slightly camp, viewpoint

Rating:
Summary: Jonathan Harvey's finest play
Review: A funny, warm and genuinely moving play which deals with loss and how it affects relationships. The play, easily Harvey's most theatrical, deals essentially with Danny, a recently deceased 30 year old Liverpudlian, and his relationships with his brother, his best friend and his lover; and their relationship to one another. The story is told through a mix of fantastical heaven sequences, flash backs and current scenes; and features the usual array of larger than life camp characters, including Julie Andrews ("a chambermaid with exquisite diction") and Beryl (who is also "Judy Garland - Keeper of the Stars). In short this play should appeal to anyone interest in modern drama, but likes a more romantic, sentimental, not to mention slightly camp, viewpoint

Rating:
Summary: Sadness and Loss
Review: Harvey's meditation on the sadness and loss of the AIDS crisis, this is a series of dreams and scenes that work in splendid dramatic fashion. The title "Hushabye Mountain" was the title of the haunting Sherman brothers song from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." This is carefully crafted play that deserved much attention and makes for good reading.

Rating:
Summary: Sadness and Loss
Review: Harvey's meditation on the sadness and loss of the AIDS crisis, this is a series of dreams and scenes that work in splendid dramatic fashion. The title "Hushabye Mountain" was the title of the haunting Sherman brothers song from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." This is carefully crafted play that deserved much attention and makes for good reading.