My Night with Reg, Donmar Warehouse, 2014.
Cast: Julian Ovenden, Jonathan Broadbent, Lewis Reeves, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Richard Cant, Matt Bardock.
Writer: Kevin Elyot
Director: Robert Hastie
I first saw this when it transferred to the Criterion Theatre, possibly the only time I've been there, which would have been in 1994 or thereabouts. I was very much the rural gay at the time and went with a straight female friend and we were both slightly in awe of the fabulous London gays around us. Thirty years later I went with two older gay friends and didn't feel out of place there.
It's a great play that doesn't need reinventing so the staging was domestic and the casting was good and I really enjoyed it. I was reminded of it at work this year when Theydon Bois came up in conversation (penultimate stop on the Central line?) and nobody knew how to pronounce it expect me, because one of the characters in this is having phone sex with a man who lives there.
I'd definitely see this again any time someone wants to revive it.
