Under Milk Wood (2008)

by Dylan Thomas

with the permission of David Higham Associates

Music: Thomas Hewitt Jones

Choreography: Darius James

Costume Design: Yvonne Greenleaf

First Voice: Gwyn Vaughan Jones

Paintings for projections: Jeremy Thomas

Video projections: Darius James

Music: Thomas Hewitt Jones

Orchestrated and produced for Independent Ballet Wales

by Thomas Hewitt Jones at Court Lane Music, London UK

Musicians:

Violin: Kevin Weaver, Simon Hewitt Jones, David Worswick, Gill Allison

Viola: John Hewitt Jones, Peter Foggitt

Cello: Oliver lallemant, Peter Gregson, James Sherlock, Daniel Francis

Piano/Keyboards: Peter Foggitt, Thomas Hewitt Jones

Vocalist: Susanna Gray

Thanks to:

Paul Baxter, Delphian Records

Mark Wherry of Remote Control Productions, Santa Monica

Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas’ most famous and enduring work now translated into over 50 languages. A favourite since its first broadcast with Richard Burton in January 1954, it brilliantly conjures the intimate dreams and innermost desires of the inhabitants of Llareggub – a small fictional sea-town somewhere in Wales.

Subtitled “A Play for Voices”, Dylan Thomas’ magnum opus carries the double legacy of the author’s extensive work for radio – a medium for which he had an almost intuitive grasp – and his skill and ability as a poet.

A polyphonic evocation of a day in the life of an imaginary small Welsh seaside town, Thomas’ play – “a green leaved sermon on the innocence of men” – visits in turn the inhabitants of Llareggub (read it backwards!) while they sleep, when they wake and go about their daily activities, as the night falls. Balancing a rhythmic, densely poetic language with a nuanced ear for the musical cadences of speech, the play’s gentle, affectionate charm and humour resonate to create a deeply textured portrait of a community responding almost mythically to the awakening of spring.

Under Milk Wood is a sensitive, often comic, examination of Welsh life in which the people are viewed as being particularly blessed. They are the “chosen people of His kind fire in Llareggub’s land” and the town retains its own magic and holy significance despite its faults.

 

Under Milk Wood (2008)

gan Dylan Thomas

gyda chennad David Higham Associates

Cerddoriaeth: Thomas Hewitt Jones

Coreograffi: Darius James

Cynllunio’r Gwisgoedd: Yvonne Greenleaf

Llais Cyntaf: Gwyn Vaughan Jones

Peintiadau at y tafluniadau: Jeremy Thomas

Tafluniadau fideo: Darius James

Cerddoriaeth: Thomas Hewitt Jones

Trefnwyd i gerddorfa a chynhyrchwyd i Ballet Annibynnol Cymru

gan Thomas Hewitt Jones yn Court Lane Music, Llundain, Prydain

Y Cerddorion:

Ffidil: Kevin Weaver, Simon Hewitt Jones, David Worswick, Gill Allison

Fiola: John Hewitt Jones, Peter Foggitt

Soddgrwth: Oliver lallemant, Peter Gregson, James Sherlock, Daniel Francis

Piano/Allweddellau: Peter Foggitt, Thomas Hewitt Jones

Llais: Susanna Gray

Diolch i:

Paul Baxter, Delphian Records

Mark Wherry o Remote Control Productions,Santa Monica

Under Milk Wood ydi gwaith enwocaf a mwyaf bythol Dylan Thomas, bellach wedi’i gyfieithu i dros hanner cant o ieithoedd. Mae’n ffefryn byth ers ei ddarlledu gyntaf gyda Richard Burton yn Ionawr 1954, yn deffro’n ddisglair freuddwydion personol a dyheadau mwyaf cyfrin trigolion Llareggub – tref lan môr fechan ffuglennol rywle yng Nghymru.

“Drama i Leisiau” ydi is-deitl campwaith Dylan Thomas ac mae iddo gynhysgaeth ddwbl sef gwaith helaeth yr awdur i’r radio – cyfrwng roedd ganddo ddirnadaeth ohono oedd bron yn reddfol – a’i fedr a’i ddawn fel bardd.

Llun rhythmig a barddonol o ddiwrnod ym mywyd tref lan môr fechan ddychmygol yng Nghymru ydi drama Thomas – “a green leaved sermon on the innocence of men” – sy’n ymweld yn eu tro â thrigolion Llareggub (darllenwch yr enw o chwith!), yn gyntaf yn eu cwsg, wedyn pan ddeffrônt a mynd ynglŷn â’u pethau pob dydd, ac yn olaf ym min yr hwyr. Mae’r ddrama’n cydbwyso iaith rythmig, farddonol i’r carn â chlust fain o ran goslefau cerddorol yr iaith lafar ac mae ei swyn tyner, hoffus a’i smaldod yn atseinio gan greu portread swmpus ei raen o gymuned yn ymateb bron yn fythaidd i ddeffro’r gwanwyn.

Mae Under Milk Wood yn archwilio bywyd yng Nghymru – yn deimladwy ac yn aml yn ddoniol – lle gwelir y bobol yn neilltuol o wyn eu byd. Dyma “chosen people of His kind fire in Llareggub’s land” ac mae’r dref yn cadw ei hud ei hun a’i harwyddocâd cysegredig serch ei gwendidau.

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