Kevin Elyot (18 July 1951 – 7 June 2014) was a British playwright, screenwriter and actor. His most notable works include the play ''

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'' (1994) and the film ''

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'' (2007). His stage work has been performed by leading theatre companies including the

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, National Theatre,

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and in the West End. He finished his final play, ''Twilight Song'', not long before he died in 2014, which received a posthumous premiere at London's Park Theatre in 2017.

Early life

Kevin Elyot was born in the

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suburb of

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, England, on 18 July 1951. As a child he was a member of the Anglo-Catholic church of St Peter's choir, and studied the piano. He studied at

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, where he acted the part of Desdemona, and sang in the third performance of

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's " War Requiem". He also sang in the Birmingham Cathedral choir as a treble. As children he and his sister were regularly taken to the theatre. He cited a trip to

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when he was around 10 years old, to see a

production of ''

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'' starring

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and

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, as the "start of my love affair with the place", and afterwards he would take himself on the bus to Stratford to go to the theatre. He went to the

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and graduated with a Theatre Studies degree in 1973.

Career

Elyot began his theatre career as an actor, working regularly at London's

from 1976, with the pioneering company Gay Sweatshop, and at the

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. Following encouragement from the Bush Theatre's artistic team, he submitted his first play to them, then titled ''Cosy''. The play opened on 3 November 1982 under the title ''Coming Clean'', in a production directed by

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. The play tackled sexual relationships in a period when AIDS was still a rumour in Britain. It won the

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. On the back of the success of his debut work he was taken on briefly by agent

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. After a deflating comment from Ramsay about the manuscript for his second play, ''A Quick One'', which remained unstaged, he wrote the radio play ''According to Plan'', which was broadcast on Radio 4 in 1987. His first adaptation, of

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's detective novel ''The Moonstone'', premiered at the Worcester Swan in 1990. In 1992, Elyot created a new translation for the

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's ''Artists and Admirers''. The production was directed by Phyllida Lloyd with a cast that included

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and opened at the

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's The Pit on 13 October 1992. Elyot's breakthrough play, ''

'', was commissioned by the

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in 1991. Hampstead passed on the play in 1993, at which point his agent submitted it to

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, who had just been appointed as the

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's Artistic Director. Daldry was swift to schedule the play for a spring opening in 1994, and suggested

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should direct. It was a smash hit at the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs, with a cast including David Bamber and

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. From there it quickly transferred to the West End, first to the

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, and then to the even larger

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where the cast included Hugh Bonneville. The play and the production won many awards including the

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and the

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Best Comedy. It went on to premiere in New York in June 1997 in a production by

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starring

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, where it was positively reviewed by Ben Brantley in ''

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''. Elyot also wrote the screenplay for the

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of ''My Night with Reg'', which was again directed by Michell and featured the entire original Royal Court cast, and which premiered on 14 March 1997. Elyot's television adaptation of ''The Moonstone'' was broadcast later that same year, with a cast featuring Greg Wise,

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and

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. Elyot's next two plays were both directed by

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. ''The Day I Stood Still'' premiered in the

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's Cottesloe on 22 January 1998, with a cast led by

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. The play is a comedy drama about the heartbreak of unrequited love and the power of memories, and was nominated for Best Play at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. ''Mouth to Mouth'' saw Elyot return to the Royal Court but now on the main stage Downstairs, and opened on 1 February 2001, starring

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. A more sombre drama about a man haunted by feelings of guilt and shame over an incident in his past, the play transferred with Duncan to the West End's

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on 17 May 2001. ''Mouth to Mouth'' was nominated for both the Laurence Olivier Award and Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play, 2004's ''Forty Winks'' again premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, as an examination on love and growing up. It was directed by

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with a cast that included

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and

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. Elyot was continuing to build a successful career as a screenwriter, which by now included episodes of ''

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'' and ''

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''. His last stage play was a new version of Christie's ''

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'' in 2005, which opened directly in the West End at the Gielgud Theatre. It was favourably received, with ''

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'' calling it "a gripping, gory corker. The show achieves a perfect balance between thrills and chills and a knowing, tongue-in-cheek humour." Further screen success followed. Eylot adapted Patrick Hamilton's trilogy '' Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky'' into a three-part miniseries for the BBC, starring

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and

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. ''

'', for Channel 4, weaves together five stories of contemporary gay life during one hot summer's night, from a civil partnership ceremony to a heated dinner party, and from school and work to bars and clubs. The cast included

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and Paul Nicholls. Elyot's final television film was an adaptation of

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's autobiography, ''

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'', which tells the story of Isherwood's years living in hedonistic Weimar Berlin in the early 1930s. It was directed by

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and starred

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as Isherwood, along with

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and

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. It was first broadcast in the UK on

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on 19 March 2011, and was also broadcast internationally. Elyot died while preparations were under way for the Donmar Warehouse's 2014 revival of ''My Night with Reg'', and shortly after completing ''Twilight Song'', his first original stage play since 2004's ''Forty Winks''. ''Twilight Song'' traces one family's hidden liaisons over half a century from the 1960s to the present day, and received a posthumous premiere at London's Park Theatre in summer 2017 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 1967. The production was directed by Anthony Banks, and starred

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(who had previously starred in Elyot's television drama ''Riot at the Rite''),

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, Paul Higgins,

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and Hugh Ross.

Personal life

He was

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and some of the plays he created were based on growing up as a young gay man, such as "The Day I Stood Still at the Cottesloe" (in which he addresses growing up and dealing with his own homosexuality in the UK in the

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Works

Plays

*'' Coming Clean'',

, 1982 *''The Moonstone'' (

), Worcester Swan, 1990 *''Artists and Admirers'' (a new translation from

), RSC at the

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, 1992 *''

'',

and West End, 1994 *''The Day I Stood Still'', National Theatre, 1998 *''Mouth to Mouth'',

and West End, 2001 *''Forty Winks'',

, 2004 *''And Then There Were None'' (

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), West End, 2005 *''Twilight Song'', Park Theatre, 2017

Television

* '' The Woman in White'', BBC, 1982 *''Killing Time'', BBC, 1990 *''

'', premiere at

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, 14 March 1997 *''The Moonstone'', BBC/Carlton, 1997 *''

No Night Is Too Long ''No Night Is Too Long'' is a 2002 BBC dramatisation based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Barbara Vine (a pseudonym of Ruth Rendell), with a screenplay by Kevin Elyot. The title comes from a line in Richard Strauss's opera ''Der Rosenk ...

'', BBC, 2002 *'' Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky'', BBC, 2005 *''Riot at the Rite'', BBC, 2005 *''

'', Channel 4, 2007 *''

'', BBC, 2011 *''

'' (3 episodes), ITV, 2003–2013 *''

'' (6 episodes), ITV, 2004–2013

Awards and nominations

, - , 1983 , Kevin Elyot for ''Coming Clean'' , Samuel Beckett Award , , - , 1990 , ''Killing Time'' , Writers’ Guild Award for Best TV Play or Film , , - , 1994 , ''My Night with Reg'' , Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Comedy , , - , 1994 , Kevin Elyot for ''My Night with Reg'' , Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright , , - , 1994 , ''My Night with Reg'' , Writers’ Guild Awards for Best Play , , - , 1995 , ''My Night with Reg'' , Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy , , - , 1998 , ''The Day I Stood Still'' , Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play , , - , 2001 , ''Mouth to Mouth'' , Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play , , - , 2001 , ''Mouth to Mouth'' , Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play , , - , 2006 , Simon Curtis, Kevin Elyot and Kate Harwood for ''Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky'' , Banff Television Festival Rockie Award for Best Mini Series , , - , 2012 , Geoffrey Sax (director), Célia Duval (producer) and Kevin Elyot (writer) for ''Christopher and His Kind'' , Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Single Drama ,

Sources

Interview
Independent.co.uk. Retrieved 6 August 2011.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Elyot, Kevin 1951 births 2014 deaths 20th-century British dramatists and playwrights 20th-century British male writers Alumni of the University of Bristol British gay actors British gay writers British male dramatists and playwrights British male screenwriters People educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham People from Handsworth, West Midlands