Still Life (play) mood without technical creaking or over padding, deserves a better fate, and if, by careful writing, acting and producing I can do a little towards reinstating it in its rightful pride, I shall have achieved one of my more sentimental ambitions." "Still Life" was first produced in London (1936) and later presented in New York (1936–1937) and Canada (1938). It has enjoyed several major revivals and in 1945 was adapted for film under the title "Brief Encounter". Like all the other plays in the cycle, it originally starred Gertrude Lawrence and Coward himself. Six of the plays in "" were
Red Peppers by Anthony Pelissier, Coward adapted "Ways and Means", "Red Peppers" and "Fumed Oak" (the film was called "Tonight at 8:30" in the US) In addition to the 1991 BBC series, television adaptations of "Red Peppers" were released in 1937, 1938, 1958 and 1969. In 1954, Otto Preminger directed a "Producers' Showcase" television production of "Shadow Play", "Still Life" and "Red Peppers" (featuring Martyn Green and Ginger Rogers). Red Peppers Red Peppers is a short comic play by Noël Coward, one of the ten plays that make up "", a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. In the introduction