Under Milk Wood

Dylan Thomas’ 1954 radio “play for voices,” reveals the lives of residents of a fictional town in a way that emphasizes our shared humanity. It’s also funny—very funny—and satirical. Among the inhabitants of Llareggub (spell it backward) are Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, the twice-widowed neat-freak owner of a guesthouse who refuses to rent her rooms for fear of germs and dirt; Organ Morgan, the church organist whose obsession with music torments his wife; and Mr. Pugh, the schoolteacher who dreams of poisoning his wife. A talented cast of nine portrays three dozen characters in a play that has the cadences and rhythms of the Welsh language and the soul of a poet. J.C.