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Article: THEATRE / Those undercover blues: Paul Taylor reviews Kevin Elyot's My Night with Reg at the Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 12, 1994
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The 'two widows syndrome' - caused when someone dies leaving
behind both the spouse and a clandestine, long-standing lover who has
no rights and must, by definition, grieve in secret - is difficult
enough at the best of times. But imagine how much worse it would be
if the two survivors were gay men, big mates since university days a
decade ago back, and if the joint object of their affections had just
died of Aids. Add to the painful complications of that, the fact that
their other great college chum, in whom both confide, had been mutely
besotted with the undercover widower from when he first met him as an
undergraduate. He's as unable, though, to reveal this to the now worn-
looking ...
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