Master Adams Sub Title A Play in Three Acts AUTHOR Patricia O'Connor Setting Master Adams's house in the village of Ballybag, Northern Ireland, in the late summer of 1947. Synopsis Master Adams has been the stern but respected village schoolmaster for forty years. Now, on the occasion of his retirement, he is glum and despondent. Feeling he has been a failure in his profession, but not knowing by what criterion he would judge success, he grows taciturn and short with his family. Wife Susan, youngest daughter Stella and her hopeful suitor John Martin, Adam's succesor at the school, fail to lift his spirits, and these plummet further when Stella is seriously injured on a climbing trip. Then, just as it appears that Stella will never recover, the possibility of a cure presents itself, and for both father and daughter there is hope for the future. PLAY TYPE Plays General Number of Acts Full-Length Cast Size Male 6 Cast Size Female 2 Date of First Production 18 October 1949 Production Produced by Ulster Group Theatre ORIGINAL VENUE Group Theatre Original Cast Susan Adams Elizabeth Begley Dr. Davidson Harold Goldblatt Master Adams R.H. MacCandless Stella Adams Noelle Middleton John Martin Maurice O'Callaghan Dr. Holroyd Joseph Tomelty James Shaw John F. Tyrone John the Post James Young Production Team Settings by Dan Fitzpatrick General Manager Joseph Tomelty Production by R.H. MacCandless Chief Electrician Dan O'Connell (1) Records and Reproduction W. Erskine Mayne CLICK HERE for information on script availability, production rights and translations for this play Information for this entry was taken from the published script, from the original production programme from the Theatre and Performing Arts Archive of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Printer friendly version