The Encounter

BRIEF ENCOUNTER Empire, Haymarket by Libby Purves and Friends

FREE HANKY WITH EVERY PROGRAMME (honest..!)   Ten years ago Emma Rice and her Kneehigh group brought this adaptation of Noel Coward’s heartrending film to the stage – to a c…

'Every bit as iconic as the film it references': BRIEF ENCOUNTER " Empire Cinema Haymarket ★★★★★ by Anne Cox

You may find, by the finish of Brief Encounter, that you've got a little bit of grit in your eye too, but don't be afraid to be swept along with this exquisitely flawless production.

Brief Encounter, Empire Cinema, London " railway classic is a platform for invention

Emma Rice's retelling of Noël Coward's love story is lively, funny and humane

Brief Encounter review " Emma Rice's bittersweet romance is a great night out by Lyn Gardner

Empire Cinema, LondonBack in the West End after 10 years, Rice's heart-stopping adaptation cuts seamlessly from theatre to cinema It's billed as Noël Coward's Brief Encounter, but this la…

Review: Review: Brief Encounter (Empire Cinema, Haymarket)

Emma Rice's adaptation of Noël Coward's classic is revived in the West End

Brief Encounter review at Empire Cinema, London " 'unashamedly romantic' by Natasha Tripney

The Rice restorative. Someone really ought to bottle it.  First seen in London in 2008, Brief Encounter, the most satisfying of Emma

Brief Encounter, Empire Cinema review " poignant, hilarious revival by Heather Neill

Emma Rice's lauded stage version of the film returns with charm and inventiveness intactIt would be so easy to make fun of the 1945 Noel Coward/ David Lean film in which, famously, noth…

'The show of the year so far': BRIEF ENCOUNTER " Empire Cinema Haymarket ★★★★★ by Debbie Gilpin

My verdict? Brief Encounter is a love letter to stage and screen, beautifully conceived and immaculately performed " the show of the year so far.

BWW Review: BRIEF ENCOUNTER, Empire Cinema Haymarket by Debbie Gilpin

Emma Rice begins her association with the Old Vic by reviving her version of Brief Encounter. It has recently been performed at the Birmingham Rep where it first began life 11 years ago and …

Brief Encounter, Empire Cinema review " poignant, hilarious revival by Heather Neill

Emma Rice's lauded version of the film returns with charm and inventiveness intactIt would be so easy to make fun of the 1945 Noel Coward/ David Lean film in which, famously, nothing ha…

Video: Emma Rice: 'Adapting a cinema into a theatre for Brief Encounter is madness'

The Kneehigh production of the classic film comes to the West End

Kneehigh's Brief Encounter: how projections bring a classic film to life on stage by Tim Bano

As Kneehigh's multimedia staging of Brief Encounter returns to a London cinema, the show's projection designers tell Tim Bano explain how they

Brief Encounter London Star Isabel Pollen on Romance, Railway Stations & Rachmaninoff by Matt Wolf

Emma Rice’s ravishing stage version of Noel Coward’s Brief Encounter is headed back to London, after international exposure that included an acclaimed Broadway run…

Watch: Emma Rice on Brief Encounter by Robin Johnson

Emma Rice spoke to us about her show Brief Encounter, one of the most tender, haunting, wholesome love stories ever, in its return to the West End. The post Watch: Emma Rice on Brief Encount…

Interviews: Emma Rice's adaptation of Brief Encounter by Official London Theatre

'Every emotion is captured': BRIEF ENCOUNTER " Touring & West End ★★★★★ by Helen McWilliams

Directed by Emma Rice, Kneehigh's Brief Encounter is a fast-paced, superbly powerful, moving and yet hilarious piece of theatre.

FIRST LOOK: Kneehigh's production of Brief Encounter by Noel Coward by Douglas Mayo

By Douglas Mayo Take a look at Steve Tanner's first look production images from Kneehigh Theatre's award-winning production of Noel Coward's Brief Encounter, adapted and directed by Emma Ric…

Photo Flash: First Look at Noel Coward's BRIEF ENCOUNTER at Birmingham Repertory Theatre by BroadwayWorld

Kneehigh's production of Noel Coward's BRIEF ENCOUNTER, adapted and directed by Emma Rice, will be produced live on stage at the Empire Cinema Haymarket in London's West End by David Pugh am…

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BWW Interview: Jos Slovick Talks BRIEF ENCOUNTER by Debbie Gilpin

Kneehigh in conjunction with the Old Vic are about to revive their acclaimed production of Emma Rice's Brief Encounter, starting with a short tourfollowed by a six-month West End run.Jos Slo…

'No one coming out of this encounter is left unscathed': THE CLAIM " Shoreditch Town Hall by Laura Kressly

The sickly, yellow lights of a featureless meeting room are making Serge thirsty. He just wants some water, to tell his story and get back home to Streatham.

Theatre News: Kneehigh announces Brief Encounter cast and West End run details

Emma Rice's production will open next spring

Emma Rice's Brief Encounter announces West End run by Giverny Masso

Kneehigh's production of Brief Encounter will run at the Empire Cinema in London's West End. Adapted and directed by Emma Rice, the

West End Return of Emma Rice's Brief Encounter Announces Full Casting by Andy Lefkowitz

Isabel Pollen and Jim Sturgeon will star in the new West End mounting of Emma Rice's acclaimed take on Noël Coward's Brief Encounter. The previously announced production ha…

How theatre stalwart Celia Johnson nearly turned down Brief Encounter by Nick Smurthwaite

Wartime love letters reveal the 20-year veteran of the stage had a deep-seated suspicion of cinema and almost did not take the