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Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 18m
Ronald Millar, C P Snow
Two candidates vie for election to be the new master at a prestigious Cambridge college.
The Masters is a dramatisation of the fifth novel in C P Snow's series 'Strangers and Brothers'. It involves the election of a new master at narrator Lewis Eliot's unnamed Cambridge College, which resembles Christ's College, where Snow was a fellow. The play is set in 1937, with the growing threat from Nazi Germany as the backdrop. The two candidates are Crawford, who is politically radical and prepared to make sure the college makes a stand against appeasing Hitler, but whom Eliot believes will not be good at dealing with people; and Jago, whom Eliot believes would make a good master, but whose wife is seen by some as a liability. Much of the interest of the novel lies in its analysis of the motives and political manoeuvres of the people campaigning for their chosen candidates
Savoy Theatre, London 29th May 1963
Alice Jago
Arthur Brown MA Tutor
Bidwell, College Servant
Charles Chrystal, MA, Dean
Eustace Pilbrow, MA, Litt D
Francis Getliffe, MA, Sc D
G H Winslow, MA Burser
Joan Royce
Lewis Elliot, MA
M H L Gay, MA, FBA, Litt D, Senior Fellow
Muriel Royce
Newby, Head porter
Paul Jago, MA Litt D, Senior Tutor
R E A Nightingale, MA, SC D
Roy Calvert, MA
Sir Horace Timberlake
Straker, College Servant
The Reverend Albert Despard-Smith, MA,B Mus, Deputy
Thomas Crawford, CBE, MA, Sc D, FRS
Vernon Royce, MA, FBA, Master
Walter Luke, MA PhD
Various rooms at a Cambridge College, UK
1937