22 years after he starred in the original production of Beautiful Thing writer Jonathan Harvey’s acclaimed play HUSHABY MOUNTAIN, Brit actor Nick Bagnell is about to now direct its revival. This new online production of Harvey’s acclaimed AIDS drama will have an openly gay cast.

It’s the story of Danny a young man, waiting to be let into heaven. There seems to be some difficulty about it, but Judy Garland reassures him as she passes by in a boat full of stars. Away from the dreamlike and unexpected version of the afterlife, the people who were closest to Danny struggle with his death from AIDS. His partner Connor is flattened by grief, and groping awkwardly towards a new relationship. Connor’s brother Lee and his wife Lana, who was Danny’s best friend, find their new marriage overshadowed by the hole Danny’s absence has left in their lives. And Danny’s mother Beryl, who had kept in contact via increasingly paranoid letters after Danny’s father disowned him, is now in a mental hospital and being updated by Judy Garland about her son’s progress towards heaven.

Starring Layton Williams who since 2019 has been playing the title role in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie,  His co-star is stage newcomer Harrison Scott-Smith  who’s best role to date  was Harry – as part of BBC Wales: It’s My Shout Festival which won him a Best Actor Nominee