Dylan Thomas season: Under Milk Wood
A contemporary presentation of Dylan Thomas’ famous ‘play for voices’ in collaboration with National Theatre Wales, featuring a host of Welsh stars.
Faith Penhale, Head of Drama, BBC Wales, says: “It feels fitting to mark the 100th anniversary of Dylan’s birth with this unique re-imagining of Under Milk Wood: a collaboration with the ever-inventive and brilliant National Theatre Wales and voiced by some of the best of Wales’s acting elite. It is a true celebration of great Welsh talent.”
Taking place from 3 to 5 May, the performance consists of an installation event Raw Material; Llareggub Revisited - a re-imagining of the world of Under Milk Wood where the audience is taken through the historic town where Dylan lived until his death and which inspired the fictional town of Llareggub, described in his famous play.
As the weekend draws to a close, BBC Cymru Wales will broadcast a contemporary, multi-layered version of Under Milk Wood incorporating elements of the NTW live event and pre-recorded readings by a star-studded cast in New York, Los Angeles, London, Cardiff and Laugharne to celebrate the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth as well as the 60th anniversary of the first BBC broadcast of his famous ‘play for voices’.
Bethan Jones is the Executive Producer, BBC Cymru Wales.
Welsh-language version
“Mae’n teimlo’n addas nodi canmlwyddiant geni Dylan â’r ailgread unigryw hwn o Under Milk Wood: ffrwyth cydweithio â’r bythol-ddyfeisgar National Theatre Wales gyda lleisiau rhai o’r goreuon o brif actorion Cymru. Mae’n ddathliad gwirioneddol o ddoniau gwych Cymreig.”
Faith Penhale, Pennaeth Drama, BBC Cymru Wales
Cyflwyniad cyfoes o ‘ddrama leisiau’ enwog Dylan Thomas mewn cydweithrediad â National Theatre Wales, gyda llu o sêr Cymru.
Cynhelir y perfformiad o’r 3ydd i’r 5ed o Fai, gyda gosodwaith, Raw Material; Llareggub Revisited – ailgread o fyd Under Milk Wood – sy’n mynd â’r gynulleidfa drwy’r dref hanesyddol lle bu Dylan yn byw hyd at ei farwolaeth, ac a ysbrydolodd dref ffuglennol Llareggub, a ddisgrifir yn ei ddrama enwog.
Tua diwedd y penwythnos, bydd BBC Cymru Wales yn darlledu fersiwn gyfoes, aml-haen o Under Milk Wood gan ymgorffori elfennau o ddigwyddiad byw National Theatre Wales a darlleniadau wedi’u recordio gan gast o actorion o fri yn Efrog Newydd, Los Angeles, Llundain, Caerdydd a Thalacharn i ddathlu canmlwyddiant geni Dylan Thomas yn ogystal â 60 mlynedd ers darllediad cyntaf y BBC o’i ‘ddrama leisiau’ enwog.
Bethan Jones, Cynhyrchydd Gweithredol, BBC Cymru Wales.
