Brief Encounter, Emma Rice adaptation of Noel Coward

St. Ann's Warehouse is quickly becoming a favorite venue for innovative theatre. And the production brought in by Kneehigh Theatre (a Cornish theatrical group) re-enforces this bias.

Brief Encounter is a multi-media production adapted from both Noel Coward's 1930s play Still Life and the later film version Brief Encounter. Effectively using actors playing double roles, the production switches between theatre and film--and blurring the boundaries between each by letting the conventions of each penetrate into the other--to create a moving mediation on forbidden desire.

Highly recommended.