The Last Days of Dolwyn + intro by Emma and Tony nominated RSC Broadway actor Kate Burton, Richard Burton’s daughter

In Richard Burton’s film debut, a Welsh valley is threatened by plans to flood the area in this underrated melodrama.

Directed by Emlyn Williams and starring Edith Evans, Richard Burton, Anthony James, this 1949 black-and-white film transports viewers back to Burton’s earliest on-screen performance.

‘The birds will not sing the same,’ laments Burton’s good-hearted grocer’s apprentice as his community in rural north Wales faces relocation to Liverpool to make way for a dam.

The moving drama tells of a bitter power struggle and the impact of uprooting a life, echoing Burton’s own uprooting from home.