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’.

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

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