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Posted: 6/4/10 at 10:53pm
No thread about this? I think this production sounds utterly fascinating. Than again, so did ENRON.
"Adapted and directed by Kneehigh artistic director Rice, Brief Encounter draws from Coward's original one-act Still Life and David Lean's 1945 black-and-white screen adaptation, which was called "Brief Encounter." Rice has also sprinkled the affair, which she calls "a grownup fairy tale," with songs by Coward and new melodies by Stu Walker, which utilize Coward's poems and other writings."
"The show was a kind of old-fashioned "happening" that felt experimental and traditional at once: Cast members wander the house, greeting theatregoers and performing songs before the action begins; the fourth wall is often broken; characters walk in and out of projected film sequences; the main lovers of the tale begin the evening by sitting in the front row of theatre, watching a movie."
"Adapted and directed by Kneehigh artistic director Rice, Brief Encounter draws from Coward's original one-act Still Life and David Lean's 1945 black-and-white screen adaptation, which was called "Brief Encounter." Rice has also sprinkled the affair, which she calls "a grownup fairy tale," with songs by Coward and new melodies by Stu Walker, which utilize Coward's poems and other writings."
"The show was a kind of old-fashioned "happening" that felt experimental and traditional at once: Cast members wander the house, greeting theatregoers and performing songs before the action begins; the fourth wall is often broken; characters walk in and out of projected film sequences; the main lovers of the tale begin the evening by sitting in the front row of theatre, watching a movie."
