Brief Encounter

News A Wiltshire Creative and New Wolsey Theatre Production in association with Yvonne Arnaud Theatre 22 Apr 2023

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Performed on the 31 March - 22 April 2023, Brief Encounter was adapted by award-winning theatre-maker Emma Rice and directed by the New Wolsey Theatre’s new Chief Executive Douglas Rintoul.

it was a dazzling adaptation of the greatest love story of all time which had all the drama of the original masterpiece with added live music, comedy and spectacle, taking you on a rollercoaster ride through all of love’s beautiful complications.

When a chance encounter in a train station tearoom kindles a timid, yet passionate, love affair between a married doctor and a suburban housewife, the two are forced to question if it’s worth risking everything for the sake of love.

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THE CAST

  • Nicola Bryan

  • Hanora Kamen

  • Jammy Kasongo

  • Samuel Morgan-Grahame

  • Tom Self

  • Lucy Elizabeth Thorburn

  • Luke Thornton

  • Chioma Uma

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Nicola Bryan, Tom Self, Lucy Elizabeth Thorburn, Jammy Kasongo, Chioma Uma and Luke Thornton dancing during rehearsals for ‘Brief Encounter’. They are in pairs, and all have their right leg raised to the side whilst their left remains on the ground. The person at the back of each pair reaches forward to hold hands of those in front.
Actors Jammy Kasongo and Chioma Uma are both smiling and dancing during rehearsals for ‘Brief Encounter’. Jammy is wearing a black t-shirt and black jogging bottoms, and Chioma is wearing light blue dungarees.
The cast dancing in rehearsals for ‘Brief Encounter’. They are all smiling.