Under Milk Wood: A Play For Voices.

THOMAS, Dylan. [Richard Burton].

Item Number: 137026

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1954.

First edition of  Thomas’s classic drama. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by actor Richard Burton on the front free endpaper, “Best wishes and many thanks Richard Burton.” Burton famously voiced the First Voice in the BBC 1954 production. In good condition. Rare signed by Burton.

Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood was first broadcast by the BBC two months after Thomas's death on January 25, 1954. The play was recorded with a distinguished, all-Welsh cast including Richard Burton as 'First Voice', with production by Douglas Cleverdon. In it, an omniscient narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of the fictional small Welsh fishing village, Llareggub. They include Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, relentlessly nagging her two dead husbands; Captain Cat, reliving his seafaring times; the two Mrs. Dai Breads; Organ Morgan, obsessed with his music; and Polly Garter, pining for her dead lover. Later, the town awakens and, aware now of how their feelings affect whatever they do, we watch them go about their daily business.