english accents????? wild surmise
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From: Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Theatrical language (Re: The lyric 'I' / "Eye ")
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 17:34:10 +0100
Addendum to the below -- I had always thought Under Milk Wood impossible to
stage in a theatre, as opposed to the radio performance it was intended for,
until I grew up and saw a performance myself, with English accents. And
whaddya know, it works like that too.
joanna
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Subject: Re: Theatrical language (Re: The lyric 'I' / "Eye ")
>I can't ignore this bit, so apologies if I've told this tale before.
>
>My mother grew up in Swansea as a virtual contemporary of Thomas's, and of
>course had his Collected Poems which she used to read to me. Like Douglas,
>I too in time found his rhetoric an over-rich diet. But I shall never
>forget the time my mother and her sister went to see a theatrical
>performance of Under Milk Wood in a London theatre. They came back reeling,
>saying -- "That man must have overheard every word we ever said." All the
>dialogue, all the use of "I" whoever it represents, was utterly true to the
>speech she heard around her, and used, growing up.
>
>joanna
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>Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 4:32 PM
>Subject: Re: Theatrical language (Re: The lyric 'I' / "Eye ")
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>>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
>>
>>
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>>From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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>>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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>>
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>>
>>Piet Mondrian
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