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Kevin Elyot

KEVIN ELYOT

  (1951 - 2014)
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  

Born in Birmingham in 1951, and educated there at King Edward's School and then at Bristol University, Kevin Elyot was an actor before becoming a writer. He won the Samuel Beckett Award for his first play, Coming Clean (1982), staged by the Bush Theatre, London. Subsequent stage work includes a version of Ostrovsky's Artists and Admirers(RSC, 1992); My Night with Reg (Royal Court Theatre, 1994), which was hailed as 'a play of genius' by the Daily Mail, won the Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Comedy and ran for almost a year in the West End; The Day I Stood Still (National Theatre, 1998); Mouth to Mouth (Royal Court, 2001), which also transferred to the West End; and Forty Winks (Royal Court, 2004). Kevin's 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 (the pseudonym of Ruth Rendell) for BBC Films/Alliance. He adapted six of Agatha Christie's Marple novels as well as three of her Poirot novels for television, including the series' final episode Curtain. Other screenplays include Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (BBC, 2005), adapted from the novel by Patrick Hamilton; Riot at the Rite (BBC, 2005); Clapham Junction (2007), a film for Darlow Smithson and Channel 4, starring Rupert Graves, Paul Nicholls and Luke Treadaway; and Christopher and His Kind (Mammoth Screen/BBC, 2011), based on Christopher Isherwood's novel, starring Matt Smith, Lindsay Duncan, Imogen Poots and Toby Jones. Kevin died in June 2014, shortly before the Donmar Warehouse revival of My Night with Reg.

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below is a list of Kevin Elyot's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         And Then There Were None         Artists & Admirers         Chain Play, The         Coming Clean         Consent         Day I Stood Still, The         Forty Winks         Killing Time         Moonstone, The         Mouth To Mouth         My Night With Reg         Twilight Song

And Then There Were None

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Kevin Elyot has drawn exclusively from the original 1939 novel rather than the Christie's own 1943 stage version or subsequent screen versions. as part of a major initiative to re-popularise Christie for the 21st century, the piece is being updated with an eye to satisfying the expectations of younger audiences accustomed to more graphic horror on screen.

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Based on the book "and then there Were None" by Agatha Christie (original title "Ten Little Niggers"). Has original book ending which was changed by Christie when she Adapted it

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Gielgud Theatre, London     14 Oct 2005

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adaptation Mystery

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Artists & Admirers

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Original Playwright - Alexander Ostrovsky

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Translation

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Chain Play, The

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One off performance of chain writing to celebrate the National theatre's 25th anniversary. a scene each from all the authors for a performance on one night

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Written By Terry Johnson, Philip Ridley, Charlotte Jones, Lee Hall, Sebastian Barry, Zinnie Harris, Kevin elyot, Nick Dear, Tanika Gupta, Frank McGuinness, Nick Stafford, Stephen Sondheim, Colin Teevan, Patrick Marber, David Lan, Sarah Daniels, Martin She

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Conceived and commissioned by angus Mackenchnie

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Coming Clean

Coming Clean
an examination of infidelitywithin a gay relationship

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Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 1984 Faber and Faber, London   

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Consent

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Horseshoe Theatre, Blackpool, Uk    

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Day I Stood Still, The

Day I Stood Still, The
In the 60s Horace Jerry and Judy were teenagers. Thirty years later, Jerry is dead, Judy is in love and the gay but hesitant Horace is unable to get on with his life - until he receives a surprise visitor.

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National Theatre, London

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Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 1998 Nick Hern Books, London   

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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Forty Winks

Forty Winks
as in his last play, Mouth to Mouth, elyot shows us the devastating impact of a rootless outsider on a bourgeois family. In this case the hero, Don, is a cosmopolitan drifter who has never got over his schoolboy love for the beautiful Diana. and in four ingeniously structured scenes we watch the quixotic Don invading the married Diana's fractious Hampstead home. all one can safely reveal is that none of the key characters - including Diana's boorish husband, gay brother-in-law and narcoleptic daughter - remain untouched by his presence. -Michael Billington, the Guardian.

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character one act

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Killing Time

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Moonstone, The

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novel by Wilkie Collins

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Mouth To Mouth

Mouth To Mouth
a homecoming party thrown for Dennis and Laura's teenage son sets the stage for this stylish but acerbic tragi-comedy. Family friend Frank's appearance at the family reunion throws up secrets from the past best kept hidden, and paves the way for fresh disaster.

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Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 2001 Nick Hern Books, London   

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Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

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My Night With Reg

My Night With Reg
Witty Drama about gay manners and morals in the age of aIDS.

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Nick Hern Books, London >>>, 1994 Nick Hern Books, London   

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Comedy. - - Gay, full length

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Twilight Song

Twilight Song
Set on summer evenings in the 1960s and the present day, Twilight Song traces one family's hidden liaisons over half a century. 2017. Barry is single, middle-aged and gay. He and his mother Isabella's relationship is fraught, yet after more than 50 years they cannot live apart. 1967. Barry is starting school, Isabella is pregnant again, and parliament passes a law of liberation. A mysterious stranger turns up in their past and their present - could he be the missing piece of the jigsaw they've both been yearning for? Hilarious, heartbreaking and full of surprises, Kevin Elyot's evocative final play proves how powerful our past can be in the present.

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David Sloan and Cahoots Theatre Company

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