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Still Life
by Noel Coward
Directed by Tony Kingston

at the Chateau de Bettembourg
18th – 21st November 2004 at 8.00pm



Stanley - Caspar Rundegren
Myrtle Bagot - Barbara Hall
Beryl Waters - Eva Dominguez
Albert Godbey - Adrian Diffey
Alec Harvey - Mehran Khalili
Laura Jesson - June Lowery
Bill - Geoff Stevens
Johnnie - Caspar Rundegren
Dolly Messiter - Fran Potasnik
Customers - Ann & John Overstall

Still Life is the study of a passionate love affair between Alec and Laura, two happily-married people who meet by chance at a railway station. Their struggle between their love for each other and their duty to their other lives is beautifully drawn and painfully real and has made both the play and the film one of Coward's best-loved pieces as well as being one of the writer's personal favourites.

Sir Noel Coward was one of the most prolific and influential British playwrights of the 20th century. Plays like Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1930) and Blithe Spirit (1940) and his most famous song "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" demonstrate his talent for fast and witty dialogue. However he could also cast a serious and reflective eye on human strengths and weaknesses. Still Life which, together with the light comedy Hands across the Sea, superbly demonstrate both the comic and serious sides of Coward's work.

New World Theatre Club

21/11/2007