Photo Flash: First Look at BEAUTIFUL THING Broadcast at Digital Theatre

Digital Theatre is today (17 June 2013) delighted to announce its next release - Jonathan Harvey's landmark play, Beautiful Thing, captured live during its acclaimed West End run at the Arts Theatre in May 2013.

Celebrating its twentieth anniversary year, Beautiful Thing also travelled to Liverpool Playhouse and West Yorkshire Playhouse, completing its national tour at the Theatre Royal, Brighton on Saturday (15 June 2013).

Directed by Nikolai Foster and with designs by Colin Richmond, the production stars SurAnne Jones, Zaraah Abrahams and Oliver Farnworth, with Jake Davies and Danny-Boy Hatchard as Jamie and Ste.

Beautiful Thing is a glorious urban love story between two young men set on an inner city housing estate. It tells the story of teenager Jamie's relationship with classmate and neighbour Ste. Together the two boys find comedy, warmth and the music of Mama Cass through their loud-mouthed next door neighbour Leah. The play exquisitely depicts what it is to be sixteen, in the first flush of love, and full of optimism.

Digital Theatre works with the UK's leading theatre companies to capture the best of British theatre authentically on screen, and makes productions available in High Definition from multiple camera angles.

Productions are available to watch online and on your desktop, on demand via the Digital Theatre channel for TalkTalk TV Plus YouView customers, with Samsung Smart TV, or through the new app for iPhone, iPad and iPad touch. Visit www.digitaltheatre.com.

Beautiful Thing was produced in the West End and on tour by Tom O'Connell for QNQ Ltd.

Speaking about the forthcoming release Tom O'Connell said: "We are incredibly grateful to everyone who supported our sell-out season at the Arts Theatre and on tour. I am honoured that Jonathan Harvey has allowed us to share his beautiful love story with the world, and capture the play for audiences to enjoy at home for the first time."

He added: "Working closely with Digital Theatre we can bring this acclaimed production to new - and particularly younger - audiences who I hope it will inspire and fill with confidence in what and who they are."

Digital Theatre Co-Founder and Executive Producer, Tom Shaw added: "It is a privilege to be able to capture this twentieth anniversary production of such a landmark play and share it with a worldwide audience."

He added: "Jonathan's story has been beautifully and intimately brought to life with this revival, and the overwhelmingly positive response demonstrates just how relevant it remains two decades after it premiered."

The production is also coming soon to Digital Theatre Plus, Digital Theatre's dedicated online learning resource which delivers quality theatre productions to schools, universities and libraries. Visit www.digitaltheatreplus.com.

For more information on Beautiful Thing, please contact Arabella Neville-Rolfe at Target Live, (t) 020 3372 0961 (e) arabella.neville-rolfe@target-live.co.uk (w) www.target-live.co.uk

Photo Credit: Mike Lidbetter