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UGLY BEAUTIFUL
The Independent
|October 31, 2025
Alan Hollinghurst's classic gay novel 'The Line of Beauty' becomes a wild ride through Thatcher-era high society in Michael Grandage's Almeida adaptation
Director Michael Grandage and writer Jack Holden’s pacy adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s classic gay novel has the dizzying fizz of a champagne-drenched cocktail party. Painted faces flicker in and out of view. Conversations fizz with bluster and tension. Painful truths land messily before being neatly whisked away, like a dropped canapé swept up by deft waiters. We're in the posturing, thrusting world of the 1980s political elite here. Power corrupts, and this story's beauty-obsessed protagonist is absolutely in thrall to the suited scoundrels who're running (and ruining) the country.
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