In 1951, two years before his death at the age of thirty-nine, Dylan Thomas wrote of his plan to complete a radio play, ‘an impression for voices, an entertainment out of the darkness, of the town I live in, and to write it simply and warmly and comically with lots of movement and varieties of moods, so that, at many levels…. you come to know the town as an inhabitant of it’. The work was Under Milk Wood – an orchestration of voices, sights and sounds that conjure up the dreams and waking hours of an imagined Welsh seaside village within the cycle of one day.

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

Thomas’s flawed villagers reveal a world of delight, gossip and regret, of varied and vivid humanity; a world that his classic ‘play for voices’ celebrates as ‘this place of love’.

Thomas’ poetic writing and an unforgettable cast of characters makes this a landmark play in the history of both radio and theatre.

“We are not wholly bad or good
Who live our lives under Milk Wood,
And thou, I know, wilt be the first
To see our best side, not our worst.”