The nostalgia is deep for me, too. As a child, listening to the welsh
hymns on the radio, then that deep sonorous voice. It evokes ... so
much/
On 6/9/07, Jennifer Compton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I met an brit/oz playwright who as a 9 year old in the north of england
> would go into the unlighted cold lino floored front parlour to listen to the
> radio play of a sunday at maybe 8pm?
>
> it could be anything - a trivial farce, a lurid thriller
>
> one day it was Under Milkwood.
>
> It ravished him and made him no good for anything else.
>
> When I heard it it was in wellington New Zealand and I was in the clever
> girls class and we were well prepared to hear a work of genius as our
> english mistress set the needle down into side 1
>
> still it ravished me
>
> but if no one had told me how great it was going to be i would have been
> even more ravished i think
>
> we have a copy and i listen to it sometimes
>
> and as i have worked on radio - as a writer and an actor - i love the moment
> when a young nervous richard burton rustles the pages of his script
> but because his read was so great - they keep that take in
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Theatrical language (Re: The lyric 'I' / "Eye ")
> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 09:15:53 -0600
>
> Never played in it, but certainly did enjoy it, listening to, say, Thomas
> himself, or the acted version.
>
> But in some ways, it is interesting precisely because the demands of theatre
> pulled Thomas back from what I now see as the often overwrought rhetoric of
> much of his poetry...
>
> Which, of course, I read when first reading poetry (back in the late 50s,
> when his Collected Poems from New Directions) was the big seller in poetry),
> but don't feel much called back to now - my taste having changed).
>
> Doug
> On 8-Jun-07, at 6:19 PM, andrew burke wrote:
>
> >
> >I love Under Milk Wood and have played various roles in it over the years.
> Douglas Barbour
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