Twilight Song, the final play by Kevin Elyot, writer of the classic comedy My Night with Reg, will receive its world premiere at Park Theatre from 12th July – 12th August. Adam Garcia, Bryony Hannah and Paul Higgins will lead the cast in this new Park200 production, which is set on summer evenings in the 1960s and the present day.
In their sitting room in leafy north London, Isabella and Basil are getting ready to take Uncle Charles out to dinner. It’s the summer of 1967 and their secrets are starting to crack as the world around them undergoes a revolution.
Tracing one family’s hidden liaisons over half a century to the present day, Kevin Elyot’s evocative final play conjures a heartbreakingly funny tale of fathers and sons, desire and denial, and lives half-lived.
Directed by Anthony Banks, Twilight Song will star Adam Garcia as ‘Skinner/Gardener’, Bryony Hannah as ‘Isabella’, Paul Higgins as ‘Barry/Basil’, Philip Bretherton as ‘Harry’, and Hugh Ross as ‘Charles’. Kevin Elyot was an acclaimed and award-winning writer for stage and screen, winning the Laurence Olivier and Evening Standard Best Comedy Awards for My Night with Reg. One of Britain’s most esteemed playwrights, he finished Twilight Song shortly before he passed away in 2014. The premiere coincides with the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, which decriminalised private homosexual acts between men over 21 in England and Wales.
