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Noel Coward's Brief Encounter adapted for the stage by Emma Rice


  • Harlequin Theatre CW9 5JN (map)

Directed by Yvette Owen

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, fall passionately in love but are doomed never to find fulfilment.

David Lean's iconic 1945 movie, Brief Encounter, was written by Noel Coward and was based on one of his one-act plays, Still Life, written a decade earlier. Emma Rice, Artistic Director of Kneehigh Theatre Company, has adapted this timeless tale of joy and heartache for the stage, interspersing the romantic action with nine Coward ditties.

Yvette directs a number of productions around Cheshire, she is a regular director at the Harlequins and is the brains behind productions such as Then There Were None, The Ferryman and The Welkin to name a few. We can’t wait to see what she does with this production.