The run at St Ann's Warehouse has just been extended until mid January.
This has to transfer to Manhattan, after this reception.
The New York reviews:
“And there come those glorious moments in Brief Encounter, the British-based Kneehigh Theater’s captivating adaptation of the 1945 movie, when the propriety-stifled lovers at its center are allowed to swoon for real. And I mean swooooon, as in falling backward, boneless, into a bottomless chasm, to the sound of waves crashing on distant shores… Before we know it, Brief Encounter has become a surpassingly charming meditation on the forms we use for dealing with that dangerous phenomenon called love…All sorts of ingenious story-theater stagecraft is brought to bear on this exercise…and when Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 begins to fill the air, and projections of stormy seas and starry skies cover the back wall, we don’t feel at all like tittering. Ms. Rice and her splendid company have stealthily stripped us of the layers of irony that many of us now bring to a film like Brief Encounter. Don’t be ashamed if you, too, feel a bit like swooning.”
- Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“The most blissfully entertaining and inventive show in town…Whatever gifts come my way at Christmas, none could make me smile more broadly or longer than this beautifully realized charmer by Britain's Kneehigh Theatre Company”
- Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News
“Its heart, charm and sense of wonder make it the perfect show for the holidays. And perhaps thereafter? It deserves a long life.”
- Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post
“To reveal any of Rice's delightful, eye-pleasing surprises would spoil much of the fun. Better to just go and let the considerable enchantment of her ingenuity wash over you”
- Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press
“This lovingly imaginative rumination on an iconic film is a joyous burst of theatrical inventiveness. Quite simply, I'm mad about the show.”
- Erik Haagensen, Backstage
“This wonderful adaptation of the classic film is enhanced…by its ingenious theatricality”
- Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
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