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Senior Drama Festival

1978
Shows 155, 156, 157, 158

• Under Milkwood (Show 155)
• Gallows Humour (Show 156)
• Hanks Night (Show 157)
• Impromptu (Show 158)

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Show 155 – UNDER MILKWOOD (adapted for the Drama Festival) directed by Janet Horner. Written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, it was a 1954 BBC radio drama, later adapted for stage and film. It’s set in Llareggub (spell backwards to see what happens there) with a narrator inviting us to share the sleeping villagers’ dreams, filled with love or hate, desire or dismay. Characters include Butcher Beynon and his wife (who dreams of their being arrested for selling cat meat), Organ Morgan who is obsessed with playing music in church, Utah Watkins, the farmer who counts sheep who look like his wife, Nogood Boyo who dreams of fishing and geishas, and Mae-Rose Cottage “who dreams of sinning until she explodes.” The cast each played multiple characters and wore several layers of costumes, involving much flinging around of clothing and props in the wings. It is said that a partially clothed female cast member getting her foot stuck in a saucepan.