Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood

    Alternative Title: Quite Early One Morning

    Author: Dylan Thomas

    Date Written: 1944–53

    First Performance: 1956, Edinburgh

    Published: 1954; rev. for stage, 1958

    Genre: Drama in 2 acts; prose and songs

    Setting: Small Welsh seaside town, 1930s

    Cast: 33m, 35f

As the town of Llaregub slumbers, the Narrator introduces the locals: Captain Cat dreams of drowned souls; Mog Edwards the draper, ‘mad with love’ for the sweetshop-keeper Myfanwy Price, although he only ever writes to her; Mr Waldo, recently widowed, consoling himself with loose-living Polly Garter; the fastidious Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, twice widowed; Benyon, the butcher, and his schoolteacher daughter Gossamer, in love with rough Sinbad Sailors; Organ Morgan, the organist;...

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