National Theatre, LondonEmlyn Williams' 1938 play is a kind of Billy Elliot of the Valleys: the old-fashioned but hugely entertaining and affecting story of a Welsh miner's son who escapes his class-bound home town with the help of a bold schoolteacher It would be easy to write off this revival of Emlyn Williams's semi-autobiographical drama as an example of post-lockdown "comfort theatre". First performed in the Wes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AM on April 24, 2022