Our Autumn Production, November 2025
Still Life was the basis for Coward's movie Brief Encounter. In a suburban railway station, Dr. Harvey removes a cinder from Laura's eye and they fall in love. Subsequent weekly meetings over tea, scenes debating respectability or love, and some sentimental moments transpire before they decide they must part forever.
Directed by Chris Plumridge
CAST
In Star Chamber A meeting takes place of the management committee of a theatrical charity, the "Garrick Haven Fund", to benefit a retirement home for destitute actresses. The committee consists of actors, who sit around a table. The stylish president of the board, the actress Xenia James, is accompanied by a small lapdog named Atherton, who is banished to the prop room for being smelly. Directed by Marcia Bryan.
CAST
Laura
Alec
Myrtle
Albert
Stanley
Beryl
Male customer
Bill
Dolly
Netti Lomas
Adam Thompson
Gill Williamson
David Bone
Cameron MacDonald
Jane Presland
John Hanley
Chris Plumridge
Marcia Bryan
Xenia James
Mr Farmer
Jenny Horlick
Hester More
Violet Vibart
Julian Breed
Johnny Bolton
Maurice Searle
Dame Rose Maitland
Elise Brodie
Photographer
Atherton the dog
Madeline Harmer
David Bone
Cheryl Ferris
Fabienne Hanley
Heather Bennett
Chris Plumridge
Adam Thompson
John Hanley
Netti Lomas
Jane Presland
John Jones
‘Cheeky’
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