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Title: Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas, Thomas Dylan, Thomas Dylan ISBN: 1-55994-758-6 Publisher: HarperAudio Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: starless and bible black & the sunny side of the street
Comment: I was first attracted to Dylan Thomas after studying James Joyce's The Dubliners at high school. I must say that in my opinion Thomas's play/poem makes a surprisingly good film, which is sadly not available thrugh Amazon.com, but to say this play for voices is delightful would be misleading, as this deep study of the underbelly of a small fishing village is about a peculiar kind of nationalism that is both celebratory and critical.
What makes it such a great experience is how the language grabs you, and you have to listen to every word, so it is intense. The narrator begins his description of the sleeping town of Llareggub from Milk Wood, above the town, then enters the cobbled streets to observe and eavesdrop, over a twenty-four hour period, dipping into the thoughts, reminiscences and dreams of the townsfolk.
Since Dylan Thomas died in 1953, and this was one of his last works, the world he describes is fifty years old and seems somewhat quaint today. But his rich language on occasions soars with the romance of feeling for the beauty of his nativeland (the vicar's morning address to the town, with nobody listening, is just wonderful), and love of its people.
Nevertheless, in relating the sexual dreams and fantasies and activities of the town and the world of men and women a touch of gothic intrudes. There are oppositions at play between the open-hearted, sexually generous women and the close-minded wives, the ecstatic Organ Morgan the church organist and his petty shopkeeper wife ("a martyr to music"), the mischievious butcher's subversions, numerous attractions and solicitations between adults and the budding sexuality of the young, the stultified love of Sinbad the barman, and an unscrupulous postman and his nosey-parker wife.And many other endearing characters.
The portrait Thomas paints of the town under Milk Wood is tainted by his own world-view, resentful of the Church, the lack of ambition and other provincialities. There's an amazing amount of activity in the town, apart from its economy, lots of drinking, sexuality and folksong, but despite the evidence of bad-blood the community seems to thrive on love and an underlying generosity of heart that allows for the bounty that all life brings.
These days I'm not a great lover of poetry, and that's what this play for voices is, but Under Milk Wood still works for me.
Rating: 2
Summary: What ?
Comment: While I'm a long time fan of Dylan Thomas's prose and poetry, I've never understood the fascination with this sloppy, non-sensical play.
It is, to me, a moment when Thomas stopped being Thomas and made a clumsy attempt to emulate James Joyce. The result is a confusing and pointless play.
That said, the man was a marvel. Read his poetry, read "Adventures In The Skin Trade" and "Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog."
Rating: 5
Summary: Something for everybody in Thomas' exquisite singsong dialog
Comment: I saw this play at the UW Drama School this spring, and it was by far the best play I'd seen all year -- so I ran right out and bought the hard copy to read. Could not put it down: and I just loved being swept away in the rhythmic current of Thomas' playful, wonderful river of speech. Satire and songs, cruelty and flirtation, dreams and ghosts, stirring eroticism and sweetness fertilize the highly alliterative and sensual text. The whole delightful, unforgettable short play makes a small Welsh fishing village seem like a living organism, where even the ground shifts and swells with the unspoken will of the long-dead and the presence of sea-captains now only legends. Get it on tape, if at all possible!
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Title: A Child's Christmas In Wales CD : And Five Poems by Dylan Thomas ISBN: 0060514671 Publisher: HarperAudio Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Collected Stories by Dylan Thomas, Leslie Norris, Daniel Jones ISBN: 0811209989 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: October, 1986 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Portrait of the Artist As a Young Dog, by Dylan Thomas ISBN: 0811202070 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1975 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Quite Early One Morning by Dylan Thomas ISBN: 0811202089 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: December, 1968 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Dylan Thomas CD : The Caedmon Collection by Dylan Thomas, Thomas Dylan ISBN: 0694526592 Publisher: HarperAudio Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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