Advantages: An unusual but highly interesting play for radio Disadvantages: None
...in our troubled world.
Under Milk Wood beckons us to tune in to the ramblings of the Llareggub village ( a seaside village ) folk going about their daily business. ( This was a clever play on words, the village name Llareggub spelt backwards is `buggerall!)
The play has around thirty two principal characters, so unless I bore you to tears I think we can only touch on a few of the most memorable ones!
Captain Cat is a retired Sea Captain who has ... ...good
Who live our lives under Milk Wood,
And thou, I know, wilt be the first
To see our best side, not our worst.
O let us see another day!
Bless us all this night, I pray,
And to the sun we all will bow
And say, Good -bye- but just for now!
Under Milk Wood was originally broadcast by BBC Radio.
Dylan Thomas showed incredible writing skills as he penned the play. For anyone who has never read any of his work the play may seem strange, even ...
Sarahjh1 08.03.2009
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Advantages: Fantastic words that are wonderful read or listened to. Disadvantages: None for me
...this little Welsh village situated under Milk Wood. There is no plot to the play just a whole host of wonderful characters who tell their stories as they dream . From Captain Cat - the old blind sea captain who dreams of his long dead sailor friends, to Mr. Willy Nilly - the postman, who even in his sleep thinks that he is delivering the post, and every night knocks on his poor wife Mrs. Willy Nilly, as if she were the door; - because of this she ... ...own personaliies and foibles. Under Milk Wood is such a joy to read; you can feel the joy, attention and love that Thomas put into the incredible words. Every description leaps out of the pages, Thomas's use of words draws us a picture of those wonderful people, their houses and the landscape.We are with them before they wake, we travel with them through their days activities and we watch as they go to sleep again - at the end of the play we know ...
oldchem 30.05.2009
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