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Muddled, tricksy and cheap: The Corn is Green at the Lyttelton Theatre reviewed

Plus: a bracing, fast-paced new drama at Hampstead Theatre that will appeal to those born before the 1960s

Nicola Walker plays the charmless Miss Moffat, while Iwan Davies is the literary genius Morgan Evans in The Corn is Green. Photo: Johan Persson
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  • The Corn is Green

    Lyttelton Theatre, in rep until 11 June

  • Wolf Cub

    Hampstead Theatre, until 7 May

The Corn is Green by Emlyn Williams is a sociology essay written in 1938 about a prickly tyrant, Miss Moffat, who tries to civilise Wales by setting up a village school where sooty-faced miners are taught to read and write. Miss Moffat is an unmarried English layabout who has money to burn and time on her hands and so, of course, she wants to ‘help’.

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