NEWPORT PLAYGOERS SOCIETY
present

UNDER MILK WOOD

Dylan Thomas

JULY 14,15,16,17,18 at 8 pm and JULY 16 & 18 at 2 pm


Newport Playgoers Society recently scooped a host of prizes, including best production, best actor and best newcomer, at the Gwent Drama League Awards with this production.

"Under Milk Wood" evokes the Wales of Dylan Thomas’ life and recollections exuding warmth, humour and pathos in equal measure. The play deals with life, love and loss and conjures the intimate dreams and desires of the colourful inhabitants of a fictional seaside town. The storyteller invites the audience to listen in on the dreams of the fictional small Welsh village of Llareggub, and
their innermost thoughts and dreams are laid bare to us.

There is Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, relentlessly bossing her two dead husbands; Captain Cat reliving his seafaring times; the two Mrs. Dai Breads; Organ Morgan, obsessed with his music; and Polly Garter pining for her dead lover.

Later, the town wakes and we see them go about their daily business, aware of how their feelings affect whatever they do.

link to The Dolman Theatre website - home to Newport Playgoers Society

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