Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood is a book based of a small seaside village in a fictional Welsh town called Llareggub.

The story focuses of the residents over the course a day and different dreams they have and encounters with the dead/living. One main character featured is Captain Cat, an old blind seaman who dreams of his

long lost lover Rosie and dead shipmates.

Under Milk Wood is probably the most enchanting work for broadcasting ever written. It was also a successful stage play: 'Dylan Thomas's beautiful, bawdy, affectionate, reckless, and deeply original play was justly crowned at its first performance by a storm of cheers...' Sunday Times

The narrative is vigorous and rich, the dialogue sparkles, the songs are beautifully simple, the play overflows with the authors fecund vision of human experience compressed into, or pressed out of, the small Welsh seaside town of Llareggub. The play has been called poetry, but perhaps it is more fitting to think it in Thomas's own words - 'Prose with blood pressure'.

'It was at once recognised... that he had disturbed the roots of our language in an organic way and given it a new vitality' The Times