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'''''Under Milk Wood''''' is a 1954 "play for voices", a radio drama by Welsh poet [[Dylan Thomas]] (1914-1953) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas], commissioned by the BBC and later adapted for the stage. Originally presented at the Poetry Centre, New York on May 15, 1953, the author playing 1st voice and Reverend Eli Jenkins.
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'''''Under Milk Wood''''' is a 1954 "play for voices", a radio drama by Welsh poet [[Dylan Thomas]] (1914-1953) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas].
  
 
== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
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Commissioned by the BBC and later adapted for the stage. Originally presented at the Poetry Centre, New York on May 15, 1953, the author playing 1st voice and Reverend Eli Jenkins.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
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1973: Staged by [[PACOFS]], directed by [[William Egan]], with [[Annie Basson]], [[Neels Coetzee]], [[Ernst Eloff]], [[Lerina Erasmus]], [[Jannie Gildenhuys]], [[Roelf Laubscher]], [[Errol Ross]] and [[Annelize van der Ryst]].
 
1973: Staged by [[PACOFS]], directed by [[William Egan]], with [[Annie Basson]], [[Neels Coetzee]], [[Ernst Eloff]], [[Lerina Erasmus]], [[Jannie Gildenhuys]], [[Roelf Laubscher]], [[Errol Ross]] and [[Annelize van der Ryst]].
  
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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
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''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Milk_Wood]
 
''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Milk_Wood]
  

Revision as of 07:57, 16 April 2016

Under Milk Wood is a 1954 "play for voices", a radio drama by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) [1].

The original text

Commissioned by the BBC and later adapted for the stage. Originally presented at the Poetry Centre, New York on May 15, 1953, the author playing 1st voice and Reverend Eli Jenkins.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1973: Staged by PACOFS, directed by William Egan, with Annie Basson, Neels Coetzee, Ernst Eloff, Lerina Erasmus, Jannie Gildenhuys, Roelf Laubscher, Errol Ross and Annelize van der Ryst.

1986: Produced in South Africa by Baxter Company '86. Directed by Keith Grenville, featuring Keith Grenville, Jeremy Taylor, James Irwin, Brenda Wood, Jennifer Steyn, Mark Legward. Design and lighting by Brian Collins; sound design Julian Ford.

1995: Presented at the Baxter Theatre and at the National Arts Festival, directed and narrated by Keith Grenville, with Brenda Wood, David Crichton, Bianca Amato, David Alcock, Chris Weare.

Sources

Wikipedia [2]

PACOFS theatre programme (undated).

Baxter Theatre programme, 1986.

Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987.

Die Burger, 11 July 1995.

Photograph - NELM Manuscripts - [Collection: FLETCHER, Jill]: 2005. 75. 19. 50.

Petru & Carel Trichardt theatre programme collection.

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