UNDER MILK WOOD

In 1951, two years before his death at the age of thirty-nine, Dylan Thomas wrote of his plan to complete a radio play, 'an impression for voices, an entertainment out of the darkness, of the town I live in, and to write it simply and warmly and comically with lots of movement and varieties of moods, so that, at many levels...you come to know the town as an inhabitant of it'. The work was Under Milk Wood, and orchestation of voices, sights and sounds that conjure up the dreams and waking hours of an imagined Welsh seaside village within the cycle of one day. Thomas's flawed villages reveal a world of delight, gossip and regret, of varied and vivid humanity; a world that his classic 'play for voices' celebrates as 'this place of love'.