How Green Was My Valley (2009)
by Richard Llewellyn
Music: Thomas Hewitt Jones
Choreography: Darius James
Set and Costume Design: Daniel Anderson
For the Royal Welsh College of music & Drama
Design Supervisor: Steve Denton
Costume Makers: Hazel Jewkes and Angharad Spencer
Head of Staging: Will Goad
How Green Was My Valley is set in Wales in the reign of Queen Victoria. It tells the story of the Morgans, a poor but respectable mining family of the South Wales valleys.
The Morgans are miners and the story follows the family trying to survive the highs and lows of working in a coalmine at that time, including the discontent that sowed the seeds that were to become the union movement.
Ivor, the eldest son marries a young girl from the neighboring valley called Bronwen.
Angharad Morgan falls in love with the new preacher, Mr Gruffydd but he rejects her because he feels he is too old and poor and cannot offer her a future.
Angharad instead marries a wealthy coal-owner whom she does not love, and the marriage is an unhappy one.
Ianto Morgan, the firebrand son, marries introverted Marged who, left alone for long days on end while Ianto fights for the union, loses her sanity.
Angharad, returning home alone meets Mr Gruffydd in friendship but gossip at their relationship forces the preacher to leave the valley forever.
“How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone”
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