Alex Jennings, Nancy Carroll & Kate Duchêne in The Astonished Heart by Noel Coward
Short Coward plays:
The Astonished Heart and Still Life
Rehearsed readings of two of the celebrated short plays originally written by Noël Coward for himself and Gertrude Lawrence and performed in 1936 as part of Tonight at 8.30.
The Astonished Heart
Wed 16 Jan, Lyttelton
The story of a devastating triangular relationship between a psychiatrist, his long-suffering wife and her scheming best friend. Told in Pinteresque-flashback, it demonstrates Coward’s skill in analysing powerful emotional depths.
With Alex Jennings, Nancy Carroll and Kate Duchêne
Christian - Alex Jennings
Barbara - Kate Duchêne
Leonora - Nancy Carroll
Tim Verney - Jonah Russell
Susan Birch - Frances Jeater
Sir Reginald French - Mark Elstob
Directed by Lucy Pitman-Wallace
Also...
Still Life
Wed 23 Jan, Lyttelton
Famously expanded to become the film Brief Encounter, Still Life is a delicate and painful examination of illicit romance and an illuminating portrait of pre-war Britain presented within the confines of a railway station café.
With Alex Jennings as Alec Harvey and Harriet Walter as Laura Jesson.
Cast also includes: Rachel Clarke, Daniel Fearn, Hilary Hamilton, Frances Jeater and Jonah Russell.
Alex Jennings, Nancy Carroll & Kate Duchêne in The Astonished Heart by Noel Coward finished on: 16 January 2008
