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September Tide

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 3m

Daphne du Maurier, Mark Rayment

When Cherry comes home to visit her widowed mother Stella, she brings her new husband with her. But surprises are in-store, as this is the first time mother and son-in-law have met.

September Tide

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Period
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary

In a Cornish house lives the widowed Stella, a woman of considerable gifts and beauty who regularly rejects proposals of marriage from her neighbour Robert Hanson. Cherry, Stella's daughter, brings home her artist husband Evan for the first time and Stella is shocked by the bohemian incompleteness of their marriage. She finds herself attracted to Evan and soon they are passionately in love: although much is left unspoken, Evan eventually compels Stella to admit her feelings.

History
September Tide was first performed at the Aldwych Theatre on 15 December 1948.
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Performing Groups
ROBERT HANSON – a friend of the family
MRS TUCKET – the daily woman
CHERRY DAVIES
EVAN DAVIES – Cherry's husband
STELLA MARTYN – Cherry's mother
JIMMY MARTYN – Stella's son

M3 (20s, middle age) F3 (20s, middle age).

  • Time Period 1950s
  • Setting

    A living-room

  • Features Period Costumes
  • Cautions
    • Alcohol

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Daphne du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier, born May 13, 1907, was the second daughter of the famous actor and theatre manager-producer Sir Gerald du Maurier and granddaughter of George du Maurier, author of TRILBY and PETER IBBETSON. After being educated at home with her sisters and then in Paris, s ...
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