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Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 5w, 10m
Emlyn Williams
Miss Moffat settles in a Welsh mining village where she starts a school for the boys of the neighborhood. Morgan Evans shows promise, and Miss Moffat determines to do everything possible for him. Against the prejudice of local folk and the wealthy squire, she manages to make good, and in Morgan she finds a young man who will go far in this piece of realism from the 1930s.
Winner! 1941 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Foreign Play
Take a glimpse at Welsh life in the 1930s in this work of realism. Miss Moffat settles in a Welsh mining village where she starts a school for the boys of the neighborhood. Morgan Evans shows promise, and Miss Moffat determines to do everything possible for him. Against the prejudice of local folk and the wealthy squire, she manages to make good, and in Morgan she finds a young man who will go far. Miss Moffat finally persuades the squire to lend his support, and she prepares the boy to apply for a scholarship to Oxford. Morgan, however, rebels against help from a woman and temporarily succumbs to the charm of a flashy girl. His mistaken sense of obligation nearly ruins his chances of success and Miss Moffat realizes that her interest in him has become too absorbing. However, her affection for him, her courage and wisdom in the end bring her victory. Morgan wins the scholarship, and Miss Moffat’s work comes to a happy conclusion.
JOHN GORONWY JONES MISS RONBERRY IDWAL MORRIS SARAH PUGH A GROOM THE SQUIRE MRS. WATTY BESSIE WATTY MISS MOFFAT ROBBART ROBBATCH MORGAN EVANS GLYN THOMAS JOHN OWEN WILL HUGHES OLD TOM BOYS, GIRLS AND PARENTS
A house in a remote Welsh countryside village. Three years in the late 19th century.
“Worth remembering as a social history of how generations of working-class school children broke through class barriers.” – The Guardian
“Tales of inspiring schoolteachers are a reliable staple of theater, movies and television, but few have displayed the durability of this comedy about a do-gooder British spinster who discovers a budding poet under the soot-covered mug of a young Welsh coal miner.” – Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
“Williams’ story may be sentimentalized but is worth remembering as a social history of the more unbendable days of British class privilege, and also of how generations of working-class school children broke through class barriers thanks to a grammar school education.” – The Guardian