A full length play for a mixed age cast of 5 people (2 women and 3 men.) Widower Tommy Mooney has been the maintenance man at Riversfield House for most of his working life and lives close by in a cottage on the estate. His daughter Judith works as a maid in the house, but lives in. The lady of the house, Mrs Cusack, is a widow and is very good friends with the bishop who is a regular caller.
Her son, Mark Cusack visits from New Zealand and becomes close to Judith. But nothing is as it seems. Is Tommy really Judith’s father? Does Mark really want a romance with Judith? Could Mrs Cusack and Tommy have a secret? Is the Bishop as pure as he’d like everyone to think? My Papa is a farcical romp of table turning events where the workers eventually become the masters. It also prods the fragile veneer of Irish snobbery and chastity and beneath the surface finds a hotbed of lust, homosexuality and saucy bed hopping secrets.