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
Still Life (2006 film) the former, and an 81% (out of 10 reviews) rating from the latter as of February 2008. At the end of 2008, "Village Voice" and "LA Weekly"'s annual film poll of film critics placed the film as the 4th best film of the year, and "Film Comment", official journal of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual end of year critic' poll of 100 film critics placed "Still Life" as the 6th best film of the year, with a total of 521 points. The film was voted the third best film of the past decade in a survey by the