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",
Tonight at 8:30 Coward adapted "Ways and Means", "Red Peppers" and "Fumed Oak" (called "Tonight at 8:30" in the US). Coward himself played Christian Faber in a 1950 film of "The Astonished Heart" (also starring Celia Johnson and Margaret Leighton). Television adaptations of "Red Peppers" were released in 1937, 1938, 1958 and 1969. "Still Life" was given a television production in 1951. The NBC-TV anthology series "Producers' Showcase" debuted on 18 October 1954 with "Shadow Play", "Still Life" and "Red Peppers", produced and directed Otto Preminger, starring Ginger Rogers in all three; Martyn Green also starred in "Red Peppers". "Hands Across the Sea"