First look images have been released for Noel Coward’s Still Life performed site specific in the Waterwheel bar at The Mill at Sonning, transformed into a 1930s railway station refreshment room.
The bar is to be transformed into the refreshment room at Milford Junction railway station. The year is 1936. The play is Still Life, that poignant and romantic tale of forbidden love written by Noël Coward, the inspiration for David Lean’s classic film Brief Encounter.
Surely one of the most haunting love stories ever told about the secret love affair between suburban housewife Laura Jesson and an idealistic doctor, Alex Harvey, who, after a brief encounter, meet at the station cafe over the course of several weeks.
The audience will sit at tables in the bar as if they are actually in the railway station itself, with live
music and steam train effects to add atmosphere. And waiters and waitresses dressed in period clothes.
Audience members can have lunch, supper or afternoon cream tea or just a cup of coffee with a Bath Bun, and while finishing your repast the play will begin right there amongst you.
Still Life runs until 29 January. It will return March 30 for two weeks. More information can be found here.
