Brief Encounter Revival 2010
Run Time:
1 hour and 30 minutes, with no intermission
Opened: September 28, 20101 hour and 30 minutes, with no intermission
Closing: January 02, 2011
Brief Encounter - 2010 Broadway History , Info & More
Studio 54 (Broadway)
254 West 54th St. New York, NY
Brief Encounter is an imaginative new work that combines elements of Noël Coward’s beloved screenplay, and the one act play on which it was based, with song, dance and Technicolor displays of emotion.
This breakout hit from London’s Kneehigh Theatre played a sold out run at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn,
NY and has also played critically acclaimed engagements at ACT and the Guthrie Theater.
Brief Encounter - 2010 - Broadway Cast
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A Brief Encounter That Unleashes Long-Repressed Emotion
9 / 10
To pin down precisely what Brief Encounter is (a para-cinematic mock-expressionistic play with music? A self-conscious post-Luhrmann meta-movie-musical onstage?) would quickly exhaust the Earth’s dwindling supply of hyphens. I’ll settle for “cabinet of wonders,” which seems to get at the false-bottomed delights of this sui generis theatrical event from director Emma Rice and her eager-to-please Kneehigh Theatre troupe. Ferried more or less intact across the East River from St. Ann’s Warehouse to Studio 54, Brief is built atop filmmaker David Lean’s dour postwar chiaroscuro of the same name, about an impossible affair carried on by two married, decent, highly un-Byronic souls. (The 1945 film was based on Noel Coward’s star-crossed stage melodrama Still Life, and Rice has restored some of Coward’s original dialogue.)
Brief Encounter
9 / 10
When Kneehigh Theatre's multimedia stage adaptation of the classic Noël Coward-penned film 'Brief Encounter' played St. Ann's Warehouse this past December, this Coward fan attended with great trepidation, only to fall head over heels for it. I felt similar trepidation when I heard that Roundabout Theatre Company would bring the show to Broadway at Studio 54. St. Ann's is a decidedly intimate space. Would the show fill a much larger house? Happily, the answer is ringingly affirmative.
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Brief Encounter History
Other Productions of Brief Encounter
| 2010 | Broadway |
Roundabout Production Broadway |
| 2018 | West End |
Empire Cinema Haymarket Production West End |
Brief Encounter - 2010 Broadway Awards and Nominations
Note: Award winners will appear on a background
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Emma Rice |
| 2011 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Malcolm Rippeth |
| 2011 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Malcolm Rippeth |
| 2011 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Neil Murray |
| 2011 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Hannah Yelland |
| 2011 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Play | Simon Baker |
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