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There was a very affecting 1997 film made of the play... Donmar reviews are all 4 star

Posted by:	UWS_JIM 10:37 am EDT 08/06/14
In reply to:	My Night With Reg at the Donmar - Mytwocents 03:38 am EDT 08/06/14

I don't know how closely the film followed the play but the playwright adapted it himself. I remember it being very funny and moving. The following are some critics feedback on the Donmar production today, all reviews I have read including the Times not quoted below are 4 start, this from 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" The Telegraph: "My Night with Reg, Donmar Warehouse, review: beautifully judged This superb revival of Kevin Elyot's play about a group of gay friends is both wickedly funny and deeply affecting, says Charles Spencer " The Guardian: "Kevin Elyot's breakthrough 1994 piece is well played, catching the secret fears and surface buoyancy of a group of companions. It stands up extremely well, both as a caustic study of gay manners in the age of Aids and as a piece that shows Elyot had the capacity to combine clever theatrical carpentry with emotional honesty"
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