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John Boyd
St. John Greer Ervine
The living room of Martha Martin's home in an Ulster seaside town in 1900.
Ineffectual and headstrong, James Martin walks out on his wife and child following an affair with his wife's younger sister. Some 16 years later he returns, with consequences both for himself and his family. Wife Martha has since become a thriving shop-keeper, and he has a grown-up son Johnny and a teenage daughter Agnes, born after he departed. Though James complains bitterly of the life he has had in the meantime, and seems unchanged, Agnes beings to wake in him a sense of genuine fatherly love and affection.
Adaptation/Translation
Full-Length
4
16 March 1954
Produced by Ulster Group Theatre
Group Theatre
Theatre and Performing Arts Archive of Northern Ireland
The Linen Hall Library, 17 Donegall Square NorthBelfast BT1 5GBNorthern Ireland
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Information for this entry was taken from press cuttings, and from the original production programme held at the Theatre and Performing Arts Archive of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast.
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