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Donmar Warehouse, Arielle Tepper Madover and Eleanor Lloyd Productions announce

WEST END TRANSFER OF MY NIGHT WITH REG

  • The Donmar Warehouse announces thatits critically acclaimed production of Kevin Elyot’s MY NIGHT WITH REGwill transfer to the West End in January 2015.
  • The full original cast of the sell-out Donmar production, Matt Bardock, Jonathan Broadbent, Richard Cant, Julian Ovenden, Lewis Reeves and Geoffrey Streatfeild, will reprise their roles in the West End transfer.
  • Directed by Donmar Warehouse Associate Director, Robert Hastie, this marks the second West End transfer for Artistic Director, Josie Rourke,and Executive Producer, Kate Pakenham, following thesuccessful transfer ofThe Weirin 2014.
  • Over 100 tickets at £25 available for every performance plus £10 Barclays Front Row seats released every Monday at 10am.
  • My Night With Regwill preview from 17 January 2015 at the Apollo Theatre, for a strictly limited season.

PRESS NIGHT: 23 January 2015

The Donmar Warehouse announces today that its critically acclaimed 20th anniversary production ofKevin Elyot’sMy Night With Reg will transfer to the Apollo Theatre in the West End in January 2015. Directed by Robert Hastie,My Night With Reg sold out at the Donmar during its eight week run in 2014.

Kevin Elyot’s Olivier and Evening Standard Award-winning comedy is set in London’s gay community in the summer of 1985 against the backdrop of the mounting AIDS crisis and on its premiere defined a moment in the lives of gay men. Robert Hastie’s 2014 revival sold out during its run at the Donmar and was hailed by audiences and critics alike,confirming its status as a classic of late 20th century British drama. Original Donmar cast members Matt Bardock, Jonathan Broadbent, Richard Cant, Julian Ovenden, Lewis Reeves and Geoffrey Streatfeild will reprise their roles for the West End transfer.

At Guy’s London flat, old friends and new gather to party through the night. This is the summer of 1985 and, for Guy and his circle, the world is about to change forever. Deliciously funny and bittersweet, Kevin Elyot’s comedy captures the fragility of friendship, happiness and life itself.

Kevin Elyot’s(writer) stage plays include Coming Clean (1982), for which he won the Samuel Beckett Award; Consent (1989); The Moonstone (1990), adapted from Wilkie Collins; a new translation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of Ostrovsky’s Artists and Dreamers (1992); My Night With Reg(1994), which won the Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Comedy, plus Writers’ Guild and Critics’ Circle Awards and has subsequently been produced all over the world; The Day I Stood Still (1998), which was premiered at the National Theatre and shortlisted for the Evening Standard Best Play Award; and Mouth to Mouth (2001) which opened at the Royal Court and transferred to the Noël Coward Theatre (formerly the Albery) in the West End and was nominated for Best Play in the Evening Standard Awards and Laurence Olivier Awards. Fort Winks premiered at the Royal Court in October 2004. His adaptation of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None for ACT and Chorion opened at the Gielgud Theatre in October 2005. Kevin’s produced screenplays include Killing Time (BBC, 1990), which won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best TV Play or Film; an adaptation of The Moonstone (BBC, 1996); the film version of My Night With Reg (BBC, 1997); No Night Is Too Long(2002), adapted from the novel by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell) for BBC Films/Alliance. He adapted six of Agatha Christie’s Marplenovelsas well as three of her Poirotnovels, including the show’s final episode,Curtain. Also Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (BBC, 2005) adapted from the novel by Patrick Hamilton; Riot at the Rite(2005), a one-off original drama for the BBC; Clapham Junction(2007), a film for Darlow Smithson and Channel 4, starring Rupert Graves, Paul Nicholls and Luke Treadaway and directed by Adrian Shergold; and Christopher and His Kind(Mammoth Screen/BBC, 2011) based on Christopher Isherwood’s memoir,starring Matt Smith, Lindsay Duncan,Imogen Pootsand Toby Jones.

Robert Hastie(Director) is Associate Director at the Donmar Warehouse. Alongside My Night with Reg, his theatre credits include Carthage, by Chris Thompson, in January 2014 at the Finborough Theatre, where he also directed the acclaimed first production in over forty years of John McGrath's Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun in 2012. Hastie directed the UK premiere of Sunburst by Tennessee Williams in 2012, as part of The Hotel Plays for Defibrillator at the Holborn Grange Hotel. As Associate Director for Sixty-Six Books, which opened the new Bush Theatre, Hastie directed the world premieres of In the Land Of Uz, The Middle Man, David and Goliath, Snow in Sheffield and A Lost Expression. Hastie is Trainee Associate Director at the Donmar Warehouse and was Associate Director on Privacy and Coriolanus. In 2011, he was Associate Director on Much Ado About Nothing starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate (Wyndham's). He has assisted Peter Gill and Laurie Sansom, and was an Associate Artist of the National Youth Theatre. He originally trained as an actor at RADA, and has performed with the National Theatre, RSC, Cheek By Jowl, Frantic Assembly, Headlong and in the West End.

Matt Bardock (playing Benny) is best known for playing paramedic Jeff Collier in Casualty, a role he played from 2007 until Summer 2014. He recently appeared in the latest series of Dr Who. Mattmade his third appearance at the Donmar in My Night with Reg having previously appeared in The Dark and Josie Rourke’s production of Frame 312. Bardock also appeared in Rourke’s production of Kick for Touch (Sheffield Crucible). Other theatre credits include Mojo and Peaches (both Royal Court) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth (both Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre). Bardock has worked regularly in television including New Tricks, No Angels and Judge John Deed,and his film credits include Mike Leigh’s All or Nothing and Topsy-Turvy.

Jonathan Broadbent (playing Guy) made his Donmar debut in My Night with Reg. Theatre credits include Grand Guignol (Southwark Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric Hammersmith), Hamlet (Rose Theatre), Ghost Stories (Duke Of York’s Theatre), Chekhov in Hell (Soho Theatre, The Drum Theatre Plymouth)and Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith). Broadbent has also appeared in feature films As You Like It and The Magic Flute.

Richard Cant (playing Bernie) made his Donmar debut in My Night with Reg. Cant’s theatre credits include War Horse (New London), Salome (Hampstead Theatre / Tour), Cymbeline (Barbican /World Tour)and Hamlet, Cymbeline and Much Ado About Nothing (all RSC). Television credits include Vexed, Above Suspicion: Red Dahlia, Bleak House and Doctors.

Julian Ovenden (playing John) can currently be seen on TV as Charles Blake in Downton Abbey. Prior to My Night With Reg, his previous Donmar credits include Grand Hotel and Merrily We Roll Along. Other theatre credits include Sunday in the Park with George (Théâtre du Châtelet), Finding Neverland (Leicester Curve), Death Takes a Holiday (Roundabout, New York) and Marguerite (Theatre Royal Haymarket). Extensive television work includes Downton Abbey, Smash, Any Human Heart, Midsomer Murders and Charmed.

Lewis Reeves (playing Eric)made his Donmar debut in My Night With Reg. Recent theatre credits include Our Boys (Duchess Theatre) and Muscle (Shock N Awe). He has appeared in well-known television productions including Our World War, Misfits, InspectorGeorge Gently and Law and Order.

Geoffrey Streatfeild(playing Daniel)made his Donmar debut in My Night With Reg. He has appeared on stage in productions including Macbeth, Copenhagen (both Sheffield Crucible), Children of the Sun, Earthquakes in London(both NT) and frequently with the RSC (Henry V, Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II, Richard III). Extensive television work includesThe Hollow Crown, New Worlds,The Thick of It, Spooks, Ashes to Ashes and The Other Boleyn Girl.

The West End transfer is produced by Arielle Tepper Madover and Eleanor Lloyd Productions in association with Nica Burns.

LISTINGS

MY NIGHT WITH REG

By Kevin Elyot

Apollo Theatre, 31 Shaftesbury Ave, London W1D 7EZ

PRESS NIGHT: 23 January 2015

Previews from 17 January 2015

Director: Robert Hastie
Designer: Peter McKintosh
Lighting Designer: Paul Pyant
Sound Designer: Gregory Clarke

Full cast:Matt Bardock, Jonathan Broadbent, Richard Cant, Julian Ovenden, Lewis Reeves and Geoffrey Streatfeild

Tickets from £10 to £55

£10 Barclays Front Row seats will be released at 10am every Monday for performances two weeks later

Reduced rate tickets available for all preview performances

17 January – 11 April 2015

Monday to Saturday 7.45pm

Thursday and Saturday 2.30pm

First midweek matinee: Thursday 29th January

First Saturday matinee: 31 January

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