REVIEW: My Night With Reg, Turbine Theatre (2021)
Extended to 11th September With Gala Charity Night on 18th August
In aid of Terence Higgins Trust

Kevin Elyot was commissioned to write a new play for Hampstead which was My Night With Reg which was turned down, presumably by, the then, Artistic Director at Hampstead, Jenny Topper. Not something you want to put on your cv! Stephen Daldry had just taken over as Artistic Director at the Royal Court and he snapped up My Night With Reg, asked Roger Michell to direct and cast David Bamber as Guy, Anthony Calf as John, the ebullient John Sessions as Daniel, and Joe Duttine as Eric.

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Extended to 11th September With Gala Charity Night on 18th August
In aid of Terence Higgins Trust
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Lewis Reeves as Eric, and Julian Ovenden as John (Photo: Johan Persson)

REVIEW: My Night with Reg, Donmar (2014) from our archive. Showing at the Turbine from 21st July 2021

Dan's toasts were sexually explicit and very funny, for instance "Gross Indecency" and "Sodomy". All three men are very different characters; Guy is socially awkward but anxious to please and his knitting is a running joke; John looks beautiful and seems caught up in his own thoughts and Daniel, in a flying visit, is personality plus with loads of sexual double entendre.

Continue ReadingREVIEW: My Night with Reg, Donmar (2014) from our archive. Showing at the Turbine from 21st July 2021