In his passionate advocacy of John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and the other “angry young men”, Kenneth Tynan denigrated the popular dramatists of his day, Terence Rattigan, Rodney Ackland and NC Hunter.
Hunter’s plays, in particular, were dismissed as bloodless, sub-Chekhovian studies of middle-class angst. Only the last part of that statement is true.
In A Day By The Sea, the Ansons and their circle are adrift in 1950s Britain.
Laura Anson struggles to maintain their small family estate.
Her son Julian is passed over in a Foreign Office that sets propriety above dedication.
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Their friend Frances endures the double stigma of divorce and suicide.
Their personal doctor has taken to the bottle after the death of his son.
This is the archetypal well-made play.
It displays all the virtues of the genre: well-rounded characters, well-shaped speeches, well-timed climaxes; together with several of the vices: contrived stagecraft and overly neat resolutions to emotional dilemmas.
The virtues far outweigh the vices in Tricia Thorns’s sensitive production.
Her cast led by John Sackville, David Acton and the ever-excellent Susan Tracy give performances both emotionally true and faithful to the period.
It is a joy to welcome back this unjustly neglected playwright.