Terry Hands directs the Dylan Thomas Centenary anniversary production of UNDER MILK WOOD.
Owen Teale joins a company of thirteen to play First Voice.
After opening at Clwyd Theatr Cymru, this production is touring Wales and England for five months during 2014 and will be performed at Aberystwyth Arts Centre Thursday 10 – Saturday 12 April. This is followed by a UK and World Tour, beginning in north America in the Autumn, to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth in 1914.
2014 also marks 60 years since the play was first produced in Britain, as a radio play by the BBC in January 1954.
Under Milk Wood is a work of genius; ripe with vitality, rich in humour and populated by sublime, eccentric, enchanting characters.
Come to Llareggub, a small Welsh town by the sea.
Meet blind Captain Cat, Mog Edwards and his sweetheart Miss Price, Sinbad Sailor, Dai Bread, Polly Garter, Nogood Boyo and Lord Cut Glass. Walk along Coronation Street, Cockle Row and Donkey Street, down to the little fishing harbour and back to Milk Wood. Dylan Thomas explores their lives, hopes and thoughts in the dreams of a night and the rhythm of a day.
Both a play and a poem, written from the heart, it offers an unforgettable journey into the roots of language and the soul of Wales.
Tony Award-winner Owen Teale takes the role of First Voice. He has recently starred alongside Zoë Wanamaker in the hit West End production of Passion Play by Peter Nichols.
He was Ser Alliser Thorne in the HBO TV adaptation of Game of Thrones. Owen achieved fame as John O’Brien, the hero in Catherine Cookson’s The Fifteen Streets, both in the West End and on TV. He played Conor in the BBC series Ballykissangel and was Dai in the comedy drama Stella by Ruth Jones on Sky 1. Other TV roles include Torchwood and Murphy’s Law.
On the stage he played Torvald in the ground breaking production of A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, which was a huge hit both in the West End and on Broadway and for which he won a Tony as Best Featured Actor.
An Associate of Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Owen was seen in Mold as Macbeth, Adam in The Four Seasons by Arnold Wesker and Burghley in Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller, a new version by Mike Poulton.
Owen’s films include The Cherry Orchard, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, in which he starred alongside Alan Bates and Charlotte Rampling.
Owen Teale joins the Clwyd Theatr Cymru Welsh ensemble company, with many familiar faces from hit productions in Mold.
Christian Patterson is Second Voice. He is an Associate of Clwyd Theatr Cymru and from Swansea. His most recent roles at Clwyd Theatr Cymru include Casimir in Aristocrats, Tomos Traherne in Rape of the Fair Country, Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross and Touchstone in As You Like It. Christian’s West End roles include Mr Bumble in Oliver! at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and Lt. Trotter in the hit production RC Sherriff’s Journey’s End.
Kai Owen, a Clwyd Theatr Cymru Associate, plays parts including Dai Bread and Cherry Owen. He has recently been seen as Willy Diver in Aristocrats, Desmond Curry in The Winslow Boy, Idris Foreman Rape of the Fair Country and Baylen in Glengarry Glen Ross. On TV he played Ken Watling in Waterloo Road and is best known as series regular Rhys in the hit BBC drama Torchwood.
Ifan Huw Dafydd is Captain Cat. A BAFTA Cymru Best Actor winner, he is an Associate at Clwyd Theatr Cymru where his previous work includes Corin in As You Like It and Blackthorn, a new play by Gary Owen. His recent stage work also includes The Dark Earth and the Light Sky by Nick Dear at the Almeida Theatre, London and Hinterland at Hampstead Theatre.
Sara Harris Davies plays roles including Mrs Willy Nilly, Mrs Dai Bread and Rosie Probert. An Associate of Clwyd Theatr Cymru her recent work includes Roots by Arnold Wesker and two new plays by Welsh writers: Bruised by Matthew Trevannion and Salt, Root and Roe by Tim Price.
Katie Elin-Salt made her Mold debut as Rita in the Clwyd Theatr Cymru touring production of Educating Rita last year. Earlier this season she was Pattie in Season’s Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn. Her other roles include Little Voice in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at Bolton Octagon and the National Theatre of Wales production of Love Steals Us From Loneliness by Gary Owen in her home town of Bridgend.
This new production of Under Milk Wood, directed by Terry Hands, marks the centenary of Dylan Thomas' birth in 1914 and the 60th anniversary of the play's British première.
Terry Hands’s recent acclaimed productions include The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan and As You Like It by William Shakespeare at Clwyd Theatr Cymru.
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