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Dylan Thomas

DYLAN THOMAS

  (1914 - 1953)
Nationality:    Welsh
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Literary Agent:    David Higham Associates Ltd  represented by Andrew Gordon

Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea in 1914. After leaving school he worked briefly as a junior reporter on the South Wales Evening Post before deciding to embark on a freelance literary career. He rapidly established himself as a remarkable personality and one of the finest poets of his generation. 18 Poems appeared in 1934, Twenty-five Poems in 1936, Deaths and Entrances in 1946 and In Country Sleep in 1952. HisCollected Poems was published in 1952. Throughout his life Thomas also wrote short stories, his most famous collection beingPortrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He also wrote film scripts, was a celebrated broadcaster of radio features and talks, lectured widely in America, and wrote the radio play Under Milk Wood, first broadcast posthumously in 1954. The highly successful lecturing tours of America in the early 1950s were made possible by his fame but were also necessary for financial reasons. In 1953, on the fourth of those visits, and shortly after his thirty-ninth birthday, he collapsed and died in New York. His body is buried in Wales at Laugharne, his home for many years. In 1982 a memorial stone was unveiled in 'Poets' Corner' in Westminster Abbey.

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below is a list of Dylan Thomas's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Doctor And the Devils, The         Dylathon         Fern Hill         Mouse And the Woman, The         Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog         Remembrance of Child's Christmas in Wales         Return Journey         Under Milk Wood

Doctor And the Devils, The

Synopsis:
the progress of medical science justifies any means Dr Robert Knox. Dylan Thomas' tale of 1850s Edinburgh, the famous anatomist and the equally infamous murderers, Burke and Hare.

Notes:
from story by Donald Taylor

1st Produced:
Edinburgh    1962

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Macmillan, London, 1969   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Dylathon

Synopsis:
The climactic event in the Dylan Thomas 100 Festival, The Dylathon is a 36 Hour live non-stop reading of the works of Dylan Thomas at Swansea Grand Theatre ending on the very hour of his birth 100 years before. Olivier Award-winning stage director Michael Bogdanov will stage 36 hours of non-stop Dylan, creating twelve elegantly crafted 3 hour chapters from the poems, short stories, letters, broadcasts (including Under Milk Wood) and film scripts plus some rare and unpublished materials. Fully devised and curated, with over 200 pieces of material read by literally hundreds of voices. The event is designed by multi-award winning Ed Dr Who Thomas and literary consultant is the international Dylan Thomas expert Jeff Towns. It will be a fitting tribute to Wales most potent cultural icon, an audacious centenary celebration in the city of his birth, his beloved Ugly, Lovely Swansea.

Notes:
Readers live on stage include great stars of stage and screen (Ian McKellen, Sian Phillips, Jonathan Pryce); sports legends (JPR Williams, Eddie Butler, Ryan Jones); national treasures (Ruth Madoc, Katherine Jenkins, Nicholas Parsons); a strong Irish contingent to greet our guest of honour President Michael D Higgins(Dervla Kirwan and Frank Kelly); broadcasters (Robert Peston, Gethin Jones, Sian Lloyd); actors (Celyn Jones, Suzanne Packer, Charles Dale); musicians (Eggs Laid by Tigers, The Morriston Orpheus Choir); comedians (Jo Brand, Kevin Eldon); writers (Howard Brenton, Gillian Clarke); together with local school children, young people and community groups. The closing hour of the show will include The Rt Hon Carwyn Jones AM, First Minister of Wales reading Those Who Died in the Dawn Raid, Michael Sheen will join the party via live-link from New York and Hannah Ellis, Dylan Thomas 100 Patron and Thomas Granddaughter will read Letter to Aeron  Dylans letter to his daughter Aeronwy, Hannahs mother.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Wales Theatre Company, Swansea Grand Theatre, Dylan 100, The Welsh Assembly Government and Homer Simpson Productions

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-   -

Music:
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Genre:
reading

Parts:
Male:  9+            Female:  9+            Other:  -

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Fern Hill

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Assembly Rooms - Edinburgh Festival Fringe    Aug 2001

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-   -

Music:
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Mouse And the Woman, The

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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Organisations:
Together Alone

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-   -

Music:
-

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

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Remembrance of Child's Christmas in Wales

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Return Journey

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "New Directions" Hutchinson, London, 1961   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  2            Other:  narrator

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Under Milk Wood

Synopsis:
A midnight to midnight prowl of a Welsh fishing village.

Notes:
music by Daniel Jones. Transfer New theatre, London 20 Sep 1956

1st Produced:
Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA    03 May 1953

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dent, 1975   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play For Voices

Parts:
Male:  17            Female:  17            Other:  -

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