UNDER MILK WOOD

Written by Dylan Thomas

Directed by Robert Chetwyn

Ian McKellen in the role of Mr Waldo, Cherry Owen, No-good Boyo, and First Drowned

Arts Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk

26 February 1963 - 9 March 1963

 

Words from Ian McKellen

The stage version of Dylan Thomas's word masterpiece first broadcast with Richard Burton as the First Voice. It relates a day in the life of a fictional South Wales village "Llaregyb" — which backwards is "Bugger All," near enough.

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Banner photo: Josie Kidd and I as sweethearts yet again. Roger Hammond, a friend from Cambridge, having been to drama school, had now joined the company.

 

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