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Still Life, one-act play by Noël Coward, produced and published in 1936, about a pair of middle-aged lovers doomed to part. Still Life was one of a group of one-act plays by Coward that were performed in various combinations, making up three shows titled Tonight at 8:30 (1936). Laura and Alec become acquainted in the refreshment room of a railway station. Although both are quite content in their marriages, they fall in love and embark on a brief, passionate affair. Riddled with guilt, they know they must stop seeing each other. Their final parting, at the railway station where they ...(100 of 122 words)

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