The Corn Is Green
Corn Is Green, The Author: Emlyn Williams
First Performance: 1938, London
Published: 1938
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: Living room of Miss Moffat's home, remote Welsh village, late 19th c.
Cast: 10m, 5f, extras
Miss Moffat, a 40-year-old spinster, comes to live in the small Welsh village of Glansarno with her cockney servant Mrs Watty and the latter's teenage daughter Bessie. When she discovers that the village children are offered no education and that the boys at 12 are forced to find employment in the mines, she decides to open a village school. When she is opposed by the local coal-mine owner, she almost gives up, but then reads the startling words of one of her pupils Morgan Evans: ‘The mine is dark, where the corn is green.’ Two years later, Miss Moffat's school, with the help of two assistants, is...
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