Project Description

Under Milk Wood, Sewell Barn Theatre, Norwich – CANCELLED

  • Date:

    CANCELLED

  • Sewell Barn Theatre,
    Constitution Hill,
    Norwich
    NR3 4BB

  • Under Milk Wood

    By Dylan Thomas

    16-18, 22-25 July 2020 at 7.30pm

    Matinée 25 July at 2.30pm

    “Time passes. Listen. Time passes.”

    The inhabitants of Llareggub are asleep. They dream. They wake. They continue to dream. They go about their daily business. This being Wales, they sing. They meet and part and disagree and weep and love and complain and rejoice. They sleep again. Their world continues to turn, as does ours.

    Dylan Thomas created this extraordinary community across many years, but it was first performed as ‘a play for voices’ in 1953 in New York, with Thomas himself as the First Voice and the Revd Eli Jenkins. The characters are at once familiar and supernatural, hilarious and tragic, disturbing and reassuring. Thomas referred to earlier versions of the play as ‘the town that was mad’; but who is to say what is normality, what is eccentricity and what is insanity?

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