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Theatre

My Night With Reg, Apollo Theatre

23 Feb 15 – 11 Apr 15, 7:45 PM – 10:30 PM

After its stellar run at the Donmar, Kevin Elyot’s award-winning My Night With Reg, is revived at the Apollo 

By Lucy Brooks on 29/5/2014

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My Night With Reg, Apollo Theatre
My Night With Reg, Apollo Theatre
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Coming to the Apollo in January after excellent reviews at the Donmar is Kevin Elyot's My Night with Reg. Julian Ovenden, Lewis Reeves and Jonathan Broadbent will reprise their performances.
The Story...
Set amid the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s London gay community, the play follows a group of friends over the course of several years. We never meet the promiscuous Reg of the title, but a night spent with him changes the course of the each character's life. The hilarity and vulnerability that ensue present a touching portrait of the nature of friendship and happiness. 
The Production...
Director Robert Hastie (Trainee Associate Director at the Donmar) will remain at the helm. Originally a RADA trained actor, Hastie has worked with the National Theatre, the RSC and Frantic Assembly. He was also the associate director of the Much Ado About Nothing at the Wyndham’s Theatre which starred David Tennant and Catherine Tate.
The cast is made up of a combination of rising stars and stage regulars: Matt Bardock was in the original cast of Jez Butterworth’s Mojo, Geoffrey Streatfeild was in both Spooks and The Thick of It, and trained opera singer Julian Ovenden is best known for his role as Charles Blake in Downton Abbey. 
Twenty years since opening, after winning an Olivier and Evening Standard Award, the Donmar's production of My Night With Reg was its first major revival. It was poignantly timed. The Royal Court premier in 1994 captured a moment perfectly; its comedy was darkly representative of a struggle which had not yet abated. In 2014, the fight against AIDS is a very different battle, and much less confined to the gay community, yet this is not a ‘gay’ play or simply a show about disease. My Night With Reg is a microcosm of humanity and all of its joy and tragedy. The play's revival at the Apollo reflects its continued and striking contemporary relevance. 

What My Night With Reg, Apollo Theatre
Where Apollo Theatre, 31 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 7ES | MAP
Nearest tube Charing Cross (underground)
When 23 Feb 15 – 11 Apr 15, 7:45 PM – 10:30 PM
Price £TBC
Website Click here to go to the Apollo Theatre Website



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  • Culture Whisper says

    'Ferociously funny and gently uplifting, the shifting scenarios reveal lifetimes of love affairs and mistakes, as the cast become more and more entwined. Elyot's exploration of the AIDs crisis could date the play and trap it in a single era, but the pace and themes are so brilliantly handled by director Robert Hastie that My Night With Reg is expanded into a play about universal love and loss. The six-strong all male cast exuded charm, humour and just the right amount of camp.'

    What the critics say

    THE TELEGRAPH 

    'though mortality runs through the piece like a dark thread, My Night with Reg is often wickedly funny as well as deeply affecting... director Robert Hastie does the piece proud, capturing its constantly shifting moods with great élan and with the help of an outstanding cast.'

    Charles Spencer

    THE EVENING STANDARD

    'Robert Hastie’s revival triumphs through a smartly judged mixture of exuberance and delicate understatement, highlighting the cool precision of Elyot’s writing — an assured command of structure and a gift for incisive comedy.'

    Henry Hitchings

    Kevin Elyot

    Tragically the talent playwright has died just a month before the revival of his greatest play. Commenting on Elyot's death, The Donmar Warehouse stated that it is "hugely saddened to hear of Kevin Elyot's death. Director Robert Hastie had been working with Kevin on script preparation, casting and design for the forthcoming 20th anniversary production of Kevin's play My Night With Reg. Kevin's passing makes the whole team at the Donmar resolved to present the production in tribute to Kevin's life and work. In the meantime our thoughts and condolences are with Kevin's friends and family."

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