Theatre World found this immeasurably Dodie Smith's best play, expressing admiration for her vivid sense of character and situation.
“Review of Dodie Smith Dear OctopusTheatre World, Oct. 1938.
(October 1938)
James Agate
wrote a flattering review that even compared some of her characters to...
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...
Timeline
21 September 1938: Emlyn Williams's play The Corn is Green,...
Writing climate item
21 September 1938
Emlyn Williams
's play The 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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