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Theatre

My Night With Reg at the Apollo Theatre reviewed: a great play that will go under without an interval

Plus: a mass exodus from a new play at the Bush Theatre

31 January 2015

9:00 AM

31 January 2015

9:00 AM

My Night With Reg

Apollo Theatre, until 11 April

Islands

Bush Theatre, 21 February

Gay plays crowd the theatrical canon. There are the necessary enigmas of Noël Coward, like The Vortex or Design For Living, which are slyly aimed at an audience of knowing code-breakers. There are the proud, defiant (and rather tedious) pleas for understanding like La Cage Aux Folles. And the gayest of them all, My Night With Reg, is also the least overtly gay because it dispenses with all homosexual caricatures.

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