Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter, The Empire Cinema London, 2018.

Cast: Isabel Pollen, Jim Sturgeon, Dean Nolan, Beverly Rudd, Katrina Kleve, Lucy Thackeray, Jos Slovick, Peter Dukes, Seamas Carey, Pat Moran.

Adaptor & director: Emma Rice

I'd see this again at the drop of a hat (although now I say that I wonder if it's toured and stupidly I didn't). It reminds me now of the production of The 39 Steps that I hated, because it made it funny, whereas while this had humour in it it also took the subject of love very seriously. It looked beautiful too in a big old cinema.