Under Milk Wood is the masterpiece "radio play for voices" Dylan
Thomas finished just before his death in 1953. First commissioned by the
BBC and broadcast in 1954, it has been performed and celebrated by
Anthony Hopkins, Richard Burton, Elton John, Tom Jones, Catherine Zeta
Jones, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole, and many others. In Under Milk
Wood, Thomas gave fullest expression to the magnificent flavor and
variety of life. A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a
small Welsh town, the play begins with dreams and ghosts before dawn and
closes "as the rain of dusk brings on the bawdy night."