Alex Jennings and Harriet Walter in Still Life 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.
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 and Harriet Walter.
Alec Harvey - Alex Jennings
Laura Jesson - Harriet Walter
Myrtle Bagot - Sheila Reid
Beryl Waters - Rachel Clarke
Stanley - Jonah Russell
Albert Godby - John Burgess
Bill - Daniel Fearn
Mildred - Hilary Hamilton
Dolly Messiter - Frances Jeater
Directed by Lucy Pitman-Wallace
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 as Christian Faber and Kate Duchene as Barbara Faber.
Cast also includes: Nancy Carroll, Mark Elstob, Frances Jeater and Jonah Russell.
Alex Jennings and Harriet Walter in Still Life by Noel Coward finished on: 23 January 2008
