MICHAEL SHEEN - UNDER MILK WOOD
Dylan Thomas at National Theatre Live
Under Milk Wood came to Sky Arts🙌
Watch the National Theatre production, with Michael Sheen,was shown free on Tuesday 28 April at 9pm
Sky Arts are the sponsor of National Theatre Live.
might sign off the day with this; a family favourite and we grew up with my father reading this to us on many a winter evening . . . now a favourite book and here a performance I dearly wish I could have seen live . . . . . a favourite actor too
“To begin at the beginning:
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless
and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched,
courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the
sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.
The houses are blind as moles (though moles see fine to-night
in the snouting, velvet dingles) or blind as Captain Cat
there in the muffled middle by the pump and the town clock,
the shops in mourning, the Welfare Hall in widows' weeds.
And all the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are
sleeping now."
