Emlyn Williams

Standard Name: Williams, Emlyn

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Hélène Barcynska
As well as devoting steady time and effort to her writing, HB founded a theatre company which she called Rogues and Vagabonds Repertory Players , because she discovered the Welsh theatre culture and thought they...
Literary responses Dodie Smith
Theatre World found this immeasurably Dodie Smith's best play, expressing admiration for her vivid sense of character and situation.
“Review of Dodie Smith’ <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Dear Octopus</span&gt”;. Theatre World.
(October 1938)
James Agate wrote a flattering review that even compared some of her characters to...

Timeline

21 September 1938: Emlyn Williams's play The Corn is Green,...

Writing climate item

21 September 1938

Emlyn Williams 's playThe Corn is Green, set in a Welsh mining town, was presented at the Duchess Theatre in London, starring Williams himself, with Sybil Thorndike as an elderly schoolmistress.

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