Although written in 1942, and originally set in the same year, the play has a timeless quality, many of the themes being relevant now.
In the darkness before the dawn of an autumn day, the long arms of chance and coincidence reach out to a group of people from different walks of life, who suddenly find themselves in an unknown place. In the emerging light they arrive at the walls of a strange city, which offers a way of life unlike anything they have known before. As each chooses their own path, they cannot fail to interact with, and maybe be influenced by, the others with whom they have been thrown together. When finally we see these people at the end of the day as the sun goes down, the experience they have had moves them in different ways. Some are wiser, some not; some have new hope, and some are unchanged.
Many people are familiar with J B Priestley’s better known plays such as “An Inspector Calls”, “When We Are Married” and “Dangerous Corner”.
As the summer, and the Minack season, draws to a close, here is an opportunity for audiences to see another side of his wide-ranging literary talents.
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