Brief Encounter
Adapted for the stage by Emma Rice,
Adapted from the play STILL LIFE and the screenplay BRIEF ENCOUNTER, both by Noël Coward.
Originally commissioned by David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers & Cineworld who first presented Kneehigh’s production of Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter in 2008
Songs and verse are by Noël Coward
The original music and musical arrangements are by Stu Barker
Directed by Tracey Okeby Lucan
November 5th - November 27th
Your heart dances. The world seems strange and new. You want to laugh and skip and fall forever… You are in love. You are in love with the wrong person. Laura, the respectable suburban wife, and Alec, the idealistic, married doctor, meet in a station buffet and fall passionately in love, but are doomed never to find fulfilment. Brief Encounter is a heart-wrenching, inventive new stage adaptation of Noël Coward’s 1936 timeless love story Still Life and David Lean’s iconic 1945 Brief Encounter film. This timeless tale of joy and heartache for the stage intersperses the romantic action with nine Coward ditties.
Saturday and Sunday performances are 4pm matinees.
All other performances at 8pm
Artwork by Michael Arvithis