“It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.”
So begins Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas’s celebrated play for voices, written in 1953, the last year of Thomas’s short, bibulous life.
Meet blind Captain Cat, fearsome Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, clock-obsessed Lord Cut-Glass, and a whole host of eccentric characters on their poetic journey through a night and a day in the fictional seaside town of Llareggub (read it backwards!)
Beautiful, bawdy, laugh-out-loud funny and reach-for-your-hankie sad, Under Milk Wood is one of the masterpieces of 20th century drama.
