'Still Life' is the love story that would become the classic film 'Brief Encounter'. A happily married housewife and a doctor meet each week - first accidentally, and then quite deliberately - in a station refreshment room. As they fall deeply in love their passion is only matched by their horror at betraying their families: they remain poised only on the edge of happiness. 'Still Life' is a short play from 'Tonight at 8.30', a sequence of ten plays ranging from farce to melodrama to romantic comedy. After touring, 'Tonight at 8.30' was produced at the Phoenix Theatre in London in 1936
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Originally published: in print in Tonight at 8.30. London: Methuen Drama, 2009
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 5, 2012)
