by EMLYN WILLIAMS
The Little Theatre, Adelaide University
April 8; 12, 13, 14, 15 @ 7.30
Matinee Sun 9 @ 4.00; Sat 15 @ 2.00
Early Mon 10, Tues 11 @ 6.30
in a new translation by Charlotte Pyke, John Kerr and Joseph Blatchley
Miss Moffat, a determined Englishwoman, inherits a house in a Welsh mining village, in 1895. She decides to set up a school for local children, to get them out of the mines. In doing so, she discovers Morgan Evans - a young man of outstanding promise - and prepares him for a scholarship to Oxford. Hugely uplifting, and entertaining, this 1937 play is a testament to the power of education to liberate disadvantaged children.
Based on his own life, Welsh playwright/actor, Emlyn Williams, played Morgan Evans to Dame Sybil Thorndike’s Miss Moffat. Ethel Barrymore was Miss Moffat on Broadway, Bette Davis in the 1945 film, and Katharine Hepburn in a 1979 re-make. It has just been re-mounted at Britain’s National Theatre, starring Nicola Walker.
Presented by arrangement with ORiGiN Australia, on behalf of Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company
Directed by
ROB CROSER