Both plays deal with young husbands who are coping with new fatherhood as well as their new responsibilities and their relationships with the dominant male figures in their lives. In Stephens' "Sea Wall," Sturridge speaks admiringly of his father-in-law, while in Payne's "A Life," Gyllenhaal speaks with love of his own father. Â Both men are madly in love with their wives who they could not consider living without.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:27PM on March 8, 2019