Still Life (play) in Paris in 1968 under the title "Brève Recontre" (presented in tandem with "Nous Dansons"), and in the same year, along with "Fumed Oak", it formed the basis for a musical, not by Coward, called "Mr. and Mrs". The film was remade in 1974 starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren. In 2008, a stage version of "Brief Encounter" was presented in London at the Haymarket Cinema and on tour by Kneehigh Theatre using a combination of the text of "Still Life" and the screenplay. In May 2009, Houston Grand Opera premiered an opera in two acts based on "Brief Encounter",
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