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[THEATER REVIEW] The Corn is Green at WTF

8.8.07
Rescuing a Student From a Life in the Mines

By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Published in the New York Times: August 7, 2007

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. 4 — A sharp tongue does not preclude a good heart. Sterling proof of this truth is personified by Miss Moffat, the schoolmistress played with appealing zest by Kate Burton in the Williamstown Theater Festival’s spirited revival of Emlyn Williams’s 1938 comedy, “The Corn Is Green.”

Trying to recruit an ally for her plan to open a school in an impoverished Welsh village, Miss Moffat quizzes another unmarried woman about her hopes for the future. “When the right gentleman appears ...,” the proper Miss Ronberry begins. But she doesn’t get any further.

“If you’re a spinster well on in her 30s, he’s lost his way and isn’t coming,” Miss Moffat tartly interrupts. “Why don’t you face the fact and enjoy yourself, same as I do?”

Forget “He’s just not that into you” — he simply doesn’t exist, my dear. Harsh! But as delivered with a sympathetic smile by Ms. Burton’s gently redoubtable Miss Moffat, the painful diagnosis feels like the beginning of a cure.

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.

Audiences today may know the material from the movie with Bette Davis, or the later television version with Katharine Hepburn. The first Broadway production was a long-running hit that provided Ethel Barrymore with one of her best roles. In three tightly structured acts that blend light sentiment with comedy that is still surprisingly pungent, the play hardly cries out for a probing reappraisal, but it makes for a likable diversion on a summer night.

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