NEW YORK—Written in 1953 in the day of the well-made play, N.C. Hunter’s “A Day by the Sea” enjoyed considerable success in London’s West End at that time, when it starred such luminaries as Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Lewis Casson, and Dame Sybil Thorndike. A later Broadway production starring Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn did not fare as well. But the current Mint Theater Company production may help to bring this poignant and moving play to the attention of the general theatergoing public.
A modest family reunion is taking place in the garden of 65-year-old widow Laura Anson’s (Jill Tanner) coastal house in Dorset, in 1953. Part of the household is elderly Uncle David (George Morfogen), who requires Doctor Farley (Philip Goodwin) to live in for his care.
