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Underground drama: Platform performance

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20030420
Author:Clare Rudebeck

Rebecca McCutcheon is fond of putting on plays in strange places. Last year, she resurrected Christopher Marlowe's first play, Dido, by the ruins of the Rose theatre in Southwark. Two forgotten Elizabethan treasures dug up and brought together. Her next project is Still Life, the Noel Coward play later made into the film Brief Encounter. Set in the tearoom of a fictional railway station, Milford Junction, it was ripe for relocation. But where?

Her theatrical partner, Sarah Thom, started investigating London's disused stations. She found one in Camden, but it was too run-down. Then she heard ...

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