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A 'Brief Encounter' under the Brooklyn Bridge

December 10, 2009 9:24 PM By LINDA WINER linda.winer@newsday.com

Quick ReadThis is not yet-another tracing-paper theater rip-off of a movie.

Hannah Yelland as quot;Lauraquot; and Tristan Sturrock as

Photo credit: Handout | Hannah Yelland as "Laura" and Tristan Sturrock as "Alec" in a scene from " Brief Encounter."

Linda Winer

Newsday theater critic and arts columnist Linda Winer. Linda Winer

Winer is chief theater critic and arts columnist for Newsday,

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'Brief Encounter'

'Laura, I've fallen in love with you!," cries the idealistic (and handsome) married doctor to the proper (and radiant) married mother from the London suburbs. To this forbidden (OK, and delicious) outburst, she pleads (meaning it, but also not meaning it), "Alec, help me be sensible!"

Well, I don't feel a bit sensible about "Brief Encounter," the deeply romantic, yet playful and witty 85 minutes...

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