Date:

November 2nd – November 17th

Northern Stage,
Barras Bridge,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 7RH

Under Milk Wood
Bawdy, tragic, sly, odd and lyrical, it is a glimpse of Wales and a golden era that may never have existed.

A Play for Voices written by Dylan Thomas
Performed with the permission of the Trustees for the Copyright of Dylan Thomas
Directed by Elayce Ismail
“It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters’-and-rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.”

Sit back, settle in and prepare to be immersed in the dreams, disappointments and desires of the inhabitants of the small Welsh fishing village of Llareggub (‘bugger all’ backwards).

Captain Cat, the old blind sea captain who dreams of his drowned shipmates; Myfanwy Price, the sweetshop-keeper lusting after Mog Edwards; Organ Morgan, obsessed with his music; postman Willy Nilly who reads his neighbours’ letters; and Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, relentlessly nagging her two dead husbands.

Originally written as a radio drama by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and later made into a film starring Richard Burton with Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O’Toole, Northern Stage’s Under Milk Wood is a contemporary, technological twist on a classic text.

Musically mournful, Dylan’s ‘play for voices’ is an enfolding and haunting experience. Bawdy, tragic, sly, odd and lyrical, it is a glimpse of Wales and a golden era that may never have existed.

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