by Kevin Elyot
seen at Trafalgar Studios Two on 24 January 2019
Kevin Elyot, perhaps most well-known for his landmark play My Night with Reg (1994), wrote Coming Clean in 1982 but this, a transfer from the King's Head Theatre, is the first time the play has been seen in the West End. Adam Spreadbury-Maher directs Lee Knight as Tony, Stanton Plummer-Cambridge as Greg, Tom Lambert as Robert and Elliot Hadley as William and Jurgen, and the production is designed by Amanda Mascarenhas.
Tony, an aspiring writer, and Greg, a published author and academic, live in a somewhat scruffy flat in Tufnell Park (north London), and William, a very camp friend, lives nearby. He is far more friendly with Tony than with Greg, who, when he appears, is clearly ill-at-ease with all the badinage William revels in. But the immediate source of interest is Tony's decision to hire an out-of-work actor named Robert to clean the flat, as he is sick of being the default housekeeper.
