UNDER MILK WOOD at the Everyman Cheltenham
Under Milk Wood is a piece I am particularly fond of and I have seen many productions. The fact that it was written as a radio play is its strength and its weakness. How do you present thirty-odd characters in dozens of different locations on stage? How do you portray a sleepy Welsh village and the myriad souls (some literally) who live there? As we all know, in radio drama the scenery and costumes are always excellent because we conjure them up in our imagination and that is the key to a stage production – keep it simple and conjure up Llareggub in the mind’s eye.
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