He cited a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon when he was around 10 years old, to see a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Richard III starring Christopher Plummer and Eric Porter, 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.
[8] Elyot also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation 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.
[9] Elyot's television adaptation of The Moonstone was broadcast later that same year, with a cast featuring Greg Wise, Keeley Hawes and Antony Sher.
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 Albery Theatre on 17 May 2001.
Eylot adapted Patrick Hamilton's trilogy Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky into a three-part miniseries for the BBC, starring Zoë Tapper, Bryan Dick and Sally Hawkins.
Clapham Junction, 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 Samantha Bond, Rupert Graves, Rachel Blake, Luke Treadaway, Richard Lintern and Paul Nicholls.
It was directed by Geoffrey Sax and starred Matt Smith as Isherwood, along with Toby Jones, Lindsay Duncan, Imogen Poots and Douglas Booth.
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.