Taylor Directs Dylan's 'Under Milk Wood' @ Tricycle

Malcolm Taylor will direct a cast led by Philip Madoc in Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood which runs at the Tricycle from 12 – 24 May, with press night on 14 May. 
 
Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas' most famous and enduring work was first performed by six actors in the Kaufman auditorium in New York in May 1953 with Thomas himself reading the First Voice.  Originally intended for radio – it was broadcast with Richard Burton in January 1954 – it has delighted theatre audiences for more than half a century.  Funny, bawdy, sad and sensual, it captures twenty-four hours in the lives – and dreams – of the inhabitants of Llareggub, an imaginary, small seaside town in south Wales.
 
The full cast is Howell Evans, Cerith Flinn, Abi Harris, Jennifer Hill, Gareth Kennerley, Philip Madoc, Glyn Pritchard and Anne Rutter, with the voice of David Jason as the Voice of the Guidebook.
 
Philip Madoc's more recent stage credits include Sir Oliver Surface in The School for Scandal for Salisbury Playhouse, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice for Wales Theatre Company, Happiest Days of your Life, for the Royal Exchange Theatre, Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor for Ludlow Festival Theatre, The Blue Angel and The Old Devils for the RSC and the title role in Faust for Theatr Clwyd.  On television his credits include Here Comes the Queen, Doctors, High Hopes, A Very British Coup and Fortunes of War. He also played the title role in The Life of Times of Lloyd George for the BBC.  His film credits include Den of Lions, The Biographer, The Spy who came in from the Cold and Operation Daybreak.
 
Howell Evans stage credits include Rope for Salisbury Playhouse, Wizard of Oz and Twelfth Night for Theatr Clywd and on screen Doctors, Casualty, Little Britain and A Land Fit for Heroes.  Cerith Flynn is making his professional stage debut in Under Milk Wood.  Abi Harris was in The Mousetrap at St Martin's Theatre and It Runs in the Family, Not Now Darling, Out of Order and The Face of Fear for The Mill, Sonning while her screen credits include Blessed, Bottled up and What do you See?  Jennifer Hill performed in The House of Bernarda Alba and The Crucible for The National Theatre, her screen credits include Dr Who and Washed Up.  Gareth Kennerley has most recently been on stage in War Horse and St Joan at the National and Fiddler on the Roof at the Sheffield Crucible and in the West End.  Glyn Pritchard was most seen recently in Hard Times and Accidental Death of an Anarchist for Theatr Clwyd and on screen in Butterflies, Brookside and Dirty Work.  Anne Rutter's stage credits include Treehouses for the Union Theatre and Staying On and Under Milk Wood for the London Theatre Company.  On screen she has appeared in Brookside, Crossroads and Miss Marple. 
 
To coincide with performances of Under Milk Wood, on Sunday 11 May (7.30pm) Dylan Thomas' daughter, Aeronwy Thomas, will talk to director Malcolm Taylor about her family and famous father.  Accompanied by a presentation of private photographs and audio extracts, tickets for the talk will be £12 and £10 reductions.