Play reading: Still Life
Our final play reading for this summer season will be Still Life, the short Noël Coward play which became Brief Encounter’on the silver screen.
We’ll be reading this play at 7:30pm on Tuesday 3rd September in the upper room at The Victoria pub, Union Road, Lincoln LN1 3BJ. Get a drink at the bar and come up and join us!
Still Life is a short play in five scenes, one of ten plays that make up Tonight at 8:30, a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. It portrays the chance meeting, subsequent love affair, and eventual parting of a married woman and a physician.
The sadness of their serious and secretive affair is contrasted throughout the play with the boisterous, uncomplicated relationship of a second couple. Still Life differs from most of the plays in the cycle by having an unhappy ending.
The play was first produced in London in May 1936 and was staged in New York in October of that year. It has been revived frequently and is probably best known in its film form as ‘Brief Encounter’, which was released in cinemas in 1945 starring Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson.
We are planning to stage Still Life in the near future but this is NOT an audition, just an opportunity to get to know the play.
Hope to see you there!
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