Turbine Theatre’s My Night With Reg latest victim of Pingdemic
Turbine Theatre’s production of Kevin Elyot’s My Night with Reg is the latest victim of the Pingdemic with shows cancelled until 8 August.
Turbine Theatre’s production of Kevin Elyot’s My Night with Reg is the latest victim of the Pingdemic with shows cancelled until 8 August.
Kevin Elyot’s play Coming Clean returns to Trafalgar Studios 2 by popular demand from 8 January 2020 for a limited season.
My Night With Reg Tour- Kevin Elyot’s groundbreaking gay play will tour early this year in a vibrant new revival by Green Carnation Theatre Company.
Paul T Davies reviews Kevin Elyot’s play Coming Clean which is now playing at Trafalgar Studios 2.
While Twilight Song lacks the power of My Night With Reg, it is an enjoyable piece of drama that sharply portrays people – both gay and straight – who feel trapped by their circumstances and seek an escape that risks making their misery even worse.
Some of the performances are deliberately bigger, determinedly more overtly comic, less confrontational than they were at the Donmar. This lessens the dramatic sense of the play in unsatisfactory ways, while ostensibly appealing, presumably, to the expected middle class audiences in the West End. Some of the acting remains first-rate and the inherent power of the writing, while diminished, is far from lost. Lewis Reeves, Richard Cant and Matt Bardock are even better than they were at the Donmar
It’s poetic and achingly sad in some moments, stupidly silly in others. But it has a resonant and vibrant pulse which throbs louder and truer now than it did when the play first premiered.