Bramhope Village Players

Our next production will be part of the Bramhope 2008 festival and we will be presenting:

Under Milk Wood
A radio play by Dylan Thomas

Tonight’s performance is a brave new venture for Bramhope Village Players. Under Milk Wood, a play for voices was not completed until a month before Dylan Thomas’ death in New York in November 1953. He had, however, been working intermittently on the play for nearly ten years. Although Thomas achieved fame before his premature death, his star status was greatly enhanced posthumously with the success of Under Milk Wood.

The first reading of the play, though not then complete, was in New York in May 1953, Thomas himself taking the parts of the First Voice and the Rev Eli Jenkins. As soon as he returned to Britain, the BBC commissioned him to complete the work and this he did by the end of October 1953. The first broadcast of the whole work, with a distinguished Welsh cast was given in January 1954.

The setting of tonight’s reading is quite unique and will, we hope, create a memorable evening’s entertainment. Evocative of the many Welsh chapels of Dylan Thomas’ day, the Bramhope Puritan Chapel built in 1649 by the Dyneley family and still retaining its box pews is a fitting place for the reading.

Here are a few pictures taken at the dress rehearsal:

(All are "clickable" for a bigger picture)

The date for this show is:

Wednesday 11th June at 7.30pm

Tickets are now available and can be obtained from:

The Chemist, The Parade

La Boutique, 2 Eastgate

Wilkinson's butchers, Tredgold Avenue

or ring 0113 284 3776 or 0113 267 1070

Information can be had by sending an e-mail to:

dramagroup@robertcraven.org.uk

We are always on the look out for new members, who would like to act, help backstage or any of the miriad of tasks which are part of putting on a play. Information about the group and how you could become a member can be had by sending an e-mail to:

dramasecretary@robertcraven.org.uk