Season 27 Play 8 – Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
Directed by
Cast
Captain Cat – Geoff Burnley
1st Drowned – Robert Jones
2nd Drowned – Ron Pearson
Rosie Probert – Sheila Bradley
3rd Drowned – Tony Reavill
4th Drowned – Gordon Sugden
5th Drowned – Gordon Lakin
Myfanwy Price – Berenice Denbigh
Mog Edwards – Leslie Poynter
Jack Black – Gordon Lakin
Mr. Waldo – Tony Allsopp
Waldo’s Mother – Freda Scarfe
Waldo’s Wife – Jenny Reavill
1st Neighbour – Barbara Bailey
2nd Neighbour – Mary Tempest
3rd Neighbour – Marilyn Baines
4th Neighbour – Sheila Bradley
Little Boy Waldo – David Stott
Matti Richards – Janet Greenwood
Matti’s Mother – Berenice Denbigh
Rev. Eli Jenkins – Frank Rushworth
Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard – Olga Nutter
Mr. Ogmore – Ron Pearson
Mr. Pritchard – Harry Chapman
Gossamer Beynon – Suzanne Lakin
Organ Morgan – Tony Reavill
Mrs. Organ Morgan – Margaret Chapman
Utah Watkins – Leslie Poynter
Mrs. Utah Watkins – Freda Scarfe
Willy Nilly – Gordon Sugden
Mrs. Willy Nilly – Barbara Bailey
P.C. Attilla Rees – Gordon Lakin
Sinbad – Nicholas Chaffer
Lily Smalls – Elizabeth Newsholme
Mae Rose Cottage – Mandy Baines
Bessie Bighead – Mary Tempest
Ocky Milkman – Ron Pearson
Cherry Owen – Harry Chapman
Butcher Beynon – Tony Allsopp
Mr. Pugh – Ron Pearson
Mrs. Pugh – Marilyn Baines
Mary Ann Sailors – Freda Scarfe
Dai Bread – Harry Chapman
Polly Garter – Jenny Reavill
Nogood Boyo – Robert Jones
Lord Cut-Glass – Leslie Poynter
The Guide Book – Gordon Sugden
Mrs. Dai Bread One – Margaret Chapman
Mrs. Dai Bread Two – Sheila Bradley
Mrs. Cherry Owen – Mary Tempest
Mrs. Beynon – Barbara Bailey
Maggy Richards – Elizabeth Lawrence
Ricky Rees – David Stott
Nasty Humphrey – Charles Whitwham
Billy Swansea – Julian Town-Jones
One of Mr. Waldo’s – Charles Whitwham
Jackie with the Sniff – Andrew Bailey
1st Woman – Elizabeth Newsholme
2nd Woman – Berenice Denbigh
3rd Woman – Marilyn Baines
4th Woman – Freda Scarfe
Evans the Death – Tony Reavill
1st Fisherman – Gordon Lakin
2nd Fisherman – Harry Chapman
Gwenny – Janet Greenwood
Child – Elizabeth Lawrence
Mother – Berenice Denbigh
Synopsis
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Directors Notes
A play for voices. This is how it was first conceived, and how for a long time it remained one of the last outposts of the ear in a period ruled by the eye.
Commissioned by the BBC for sound radio it was given two Sunday night performances at the Old Vic and succeeded in holding the spectator as well as the listener. Whether the characters of our imagination are to be preferred to those presented on the stage is something we each decide for our-selves; for my part I think the stage would be the poorer for the absence of Polly Garter, Organ Morgan and Mog Edwards.
The cast is large and doubling is inevitable – Dylan Thomas read in the original American presentation with only five other voices. A recent touring production had a cast of eleven and was compelled to make cuts. Our Mr. Waldo not long ago stage managed a solo performance throughout a tour. We make our attempt with a cast of six children and twenty-four adults, only six of whom play one character.
I am cheered by a critic of the first production – “all words intended to be spoken gain from the sight of the speaker” and by Dylan Thomas’s own injunction to his first cast-_”Love the words”. We do..
