by Daphne Du Maurier
[Starring] Jane Baxter, Donald Houston and Perlita Neilson

(Perlita Nelson appears by permission of John Clements)
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[Photo caption] Donald Houston as Evan and Jane Baxter as Stella in "September Tide" by Daphne du Maurier

"You never know what will happen with a September tide. They're damned tricky things - " Behind this literal comment of one of the characters in tonight's play lie further reaching implications and complications. To the house of Stella Martyn, set idyllically on the Cornish coast come her newly-married daughter, Cherry, and newly acquired son-in-law, Evan. He, an established artist in his late thirties, with a somewhat cynical view of the world, and Cherry, with the unorthodox upbringing of a tomboy, seem to make an uneasy pair of newly-weds. But it is not so much with their relationship that Stella is concerned as with the discovery of her own feelings for Evan...