Brief encounter
By: Noël Coward ; adapted by Emma Rice
Contributors: Coward, Noel, 1899-1973; Lean, David, 1908-1991, associated name
Series: Modern plays; Methuen modern plays
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Description: 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 Noël Coward and was based on one of his one-act plays, 'Still Life', written a decade earlier. This version for the stage was adapted by Emma Rice and first presented at the Cinema Haymarket in February 2008.
Notes: Previously issued in print: London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2013.