Brief Encounter, Noel Coward, adapted by Emma Rice
24th February – 28th February 2015, Mill Theatre Dundrum
This award winning company who recently brought you their acclaimed production of Rebecca (as featured on RTE’s Morning Ireland) now bring to the Mill Theatre their production of Brief Encounter. With wit and musicality, Sandyford Little Theatre bring the joy and heartache of this timeless love story to the stage.
Brief Encounter is remembered as one of the most haunting love stories ever.
Laura, the respectable suburban wife, and Alec, the idealistic, married doctor, meet in a station cafe and fall passionately in love.
“That’s how it all began. Just by me getting a little piece of grit in my eye.”
Laura
“Please help me to be sensible” . . .
Alec . . . “Not yet – not quite yet”
Vibrantly theatrical and totally absorbing, A show not to be missed
CAST: LAURA JESSON – Sarah McDonagh, ALEC HARVEY – Niall McGeorge, FRED JESSON/SOLDIER – Richard Doyle, BERYL WATERS – Elaine Walsh, MYRTLE BAGOT – Nuala Kirby, STANLEY/STEPHEN/SOLDIER – Edward Kelly, ALBERT GODBY – Noel Gaskin, MARGARET/DOLLY/VOCALIST – Deirdre McCabe, BOBBY/SOLDIER/VOCALIST/UKELELE – Brendan Phelan, WAITRESS/USHER/ENSEMBLE – Ann Irwin, DIRECTOR/USHER/ENSEMBLE – Una Twyford, MARY NORTON/ENSEMBLE – Anna Basquille, HERMOINE ROLANDSON/USHER/ENSEMBLE – Deirdre O’Sullivan, USHER/ENSEMBLE – Tony Matthews.
PRODUCTION: DIRECTOR – Moira Walsh, LIGHTING – Gary Daly, STAGE MANAGER – Lorraine Hanlon, DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER/USHER – Vicky Moran, ASS. STAGE MANAGER/PUBLICITY/PROGRAMME – Karen Pappin, ASS. STAGE MANAGER /USHER – Siobhan Dunne, CINEMATOGRAPHER – Julian Charlton, SET DESIGN – Gianni Alverano & Tom Roynane, COSTUME – Roisin Wlash, SINGING COACH – Miriam Dignan, POSTER DESIGN – Rebecca Pitt, CAST PHOTOGRAPHY – Richard Boyd, PIANO – Jordan, BASS – Gon, UKELELE – Joe McPartlin.
