The Corn Is Green review " an inspirational heart-warmer in praise of grammar school education
National Theatre, LondonEmlyn Williams' 1938 play is a kind of Billy Elliot of the Valleys: the old-fashioned but hugely entertaining and affecting story of a Welsh miner's son who escapes his class-bound home town with the help of a bold schoolteacher It would be easy to write off this revival of Emlyn Williams's semi-autobiographical drama as an example of post-lockdown "comfort theatre". First performed in the Wes…
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