NATIONAL THEATRE IN COLLABORATION WITH BBC CYMRU WALES

NTW Programme.indd 1 22/04/2014 17:49:26 NTW Programme.indd 2 22/04/2014 17:49:26 In 1934 the 19-year-old Dylan wrote for the locals, visited Laugharne, describing it in a letter or Laugharneys, declaring, ‘...what the as, ‘...the strangest town in Wales.’ He first people of Laugharne need is a play about moved here in 1938, and spent the rest of themselves, where they act themselves’ ... his life either living here, or trying to find a and if the 99-year-old Dylan was still with way back here. What was it that entranced us he would not be short of material for the burgeoning bohemian poet? Everything, Under Milk Wood 2, for the characters and it seems. This was an English-speaking, the tales remain. Raw Material: Llareggub cosmopolitan township with artists, writers Revisited sets out to re-imagine Under Milk and ancient traditions surrounded by farms, Wood by celebrating the various elements birdlife and the estuary. Laugharne was that influenced Dylan, and that he in turn untainted by the industrial revolution, had influenced. Marc Rees and Jon Tregenna no railway and little tourism: indeed, it still have enjoyed immersing themselves in has a certain ‘otherness’. Perhaps the most Laugharne life, from tea dancing to church crucial factor was the people. Laugharne to afternoons in Browns Hotel, and are was a place of stories, wits and intrigues, very grateful to everyone who helped bring and still is today. this production to life. The last word on Laugharne belongs to Dylan himself, ‘...there is nowhere like it anywhere at all.’

Yn 1934 aeth Dylan Thomas, oedd yn 19 oed Ysgrifennodd Dylan Under Milk Wood i’r ar y pryd, i ymweld â Thalacharn, gan ei bobl leol, neu’r Laugharneys, gan ddweud, disgrifio mewn llythyr fel ‘...the strangest ‘...what the people of Laugharne need is town in Wales.’ Symudodd yma yn gyntaf yn a play about themselves, where they act 1938, a threuliodd weddill ei fywyd naill ai’n themselves’ ...a phe byddai’r Dylan 99 byw yma, neu’n ceisio dychwelyd yma. Beth oed yn dal i fod gyda ni, ni fyddai’n brin oedd wedi swyno’r bardd bohemaidd newydd o ddeunydd ar gyfer Under Milk Wood 2, hwn? Popeth, yn ôl y sôn. Roedd hon yn dref oherwydd mae’r cymeriadau a’r straeon Saesneg ei hiaith, gydag artistiaid, awduron yn parhau. Nod Raw Material: Llareggub a thraddodiadau hynafol gyda ffermydd, Revisited yw ail-greu Under Milk Wood adar gwyllt a’r aber gerllaw. Ni effeithiwyd trwy ddathlu’r amrywiol elfennau a ar Dalacharn gan y chwyldro diwydiannol, ddylanwadodd ar Dylan, ac y dylanwadodd doedd dim rheilffordd yno ac ychydig iawn ef arnynt hwythau. Mae Marc Rees a Jon o dwristiaeth ydoedd: yn wir, mae rhywfaint Tregenna wedi mwynhau ymdoddi i fywyd o ‘otherness’ yn dal i berthyn iddi. Efallai Talacharn, o ddawnsfeydd te i’r eglwys i mai’r ffactor pwysicaf oedd y bobl. Roedd brynhawniau yng Ngwesty Browns, ac maent Talacharn yn lle llawn straeon, hiwmor a yn ddiolchgar iawn i bawb sydd wedi helpu i dirgelion, ac fel yna y mae hi heddiw. ddod â’r cynhyrchiad hwn yn fyw. Mae’r gair olaf ar Dalacharn yn eiddo i Dylan ei hun,’... there is nowhere like it anywhere at all.’

NTW Programme.indd 3 22/04/2014 17:49:27 Creators/Crewyr Site Manager/Rheolwr Safle Graffiti Artists/ Marc Rees & Jon Tregenna Clive Williams Artistiaid Graffiti Bryce Davies, Simon Dark Filmmaker/ Company Stage Manager/ Gwneuthurwr Ffilmiau Rheolwr Llwyfan y Cwmni Papier mâché lead artist/ Simon Clode Sandra Blue Artist blaen papier mâché Judith Rees & Costume/Gwisgoedd Production Team/ Laugharne School Neil Davies Tîm Cynhyrchu David Abra, John Cox, Taxidermist/Tacsidermydd Music/Cerddoriaeth Matt Gibson, Stuart Sean Connell Louis Pearson Owen, Rosie John, Al McLeod, Felix Stella Green, Jon Tregenna Ninja Knitter/Gwewyr Ninja Otaola, Kieran Owen, Annie Hardy Sound Design/Dylunio Sain Clive Williams Mike Beer Owl Keeper/Gofalwr Tylluanod Stewarding and Crew/ Stuart John Jackdaw Film/Ffilm Stiwardio a Chriw John Bonham Carter Telgwen Broadcast Footage courtesy of BBC Cymru Wales/Ffilm Production Manager/ Photographer/Ffotograffydd darlledu gan BBC Cymru Wales Rheolwr Cynhyrchu Warren Orchard Giles Parbery

Locations/Lleoliadau With thanks to/Diolch i Thanks to Browns Hotel, Tin Shed The Dylan Weekends/Penwythnosau Experience, The Howells Family, Dylan, Maggie James, Bethan Jones, The Gleed-Griffiths Family, Denzil Barry James, Nerea Martinez de Brown, Dave & Jean Gunther, Karen Lecea, Chips Jenkins, Roy Gill, Marian Woodworth & Sean Connell, Karen Gill, CADW, Browns Hotel, Sarah Leigh, Ingham & Jamie Morgan, St Martin’s Roxanne Treacy, Laugharne WI, Ysgol Church, Victoria Bakery, Cors Playing Talacharn/Laugharne School, Laugharne Field (reg. charity), Portreeve & Rugby Club and the people of Laugharne Laugharne Corporation, Carmarthen Special thanks to/Diolch arbennig i County Council/Cyngor Sir Caerfyrddin Timon Films and the Milkwood Trust

NTW Programme.indd 4 22/04/2014 17:49:27 Mike Voyce Russell Gomer Roy Ebsworth-Williams Charles Dale

LAUGHARNE PLAYERS/ CHWARAEWYR TALACHARN Sian Bradshaw Richard Hagin John Bradshaw Annie Hardy Ann Brown Mary Hughes Susan Darke Maggie James Conway Davies Adrian Nichols Richard Griffith Roz Paskin Dave Gunther Ann Watts Jean Gunther Jeff Watts

BROADCAST CAST/ CAST DARLLEDU Kimberley Nixon Di Botcher Siân Phillips Charlotte Church Jonathan Pryce Tom Ellis Robert Pugh Ioan Gruffudd Tom Rhys Harries Matthew Rhys Richard Harrington Alexandra Roach Aneirin Hughes Craig Roberts Katherine Jenkins Nia Roberts Karl Johnson Mark Lewis Jones Owen Teale Sir Tom Jones Bryn Terfel Sharon Morgan Sian Thomas Eve Myles

NTW Programme.indd 5 22/04/2014 17:49:27 NATIONAL THEATRE WALES

National Theatre Wales was launched in Lansiwyd National Theatre Wales ym November 2009, and creates invigorating mis Tachwedd 2009, ac mae’n creu theatr theatre in the English language, rooted fywiogus yn y Saesneg, wedi’i gwreiddio yng in Wales, with an international reach. For Nghymru, gydag apêl ryngwladol. Am fwy more information on National Theatre Wales’ o wybodaeth am sioeau National Theatre shows, visit: nationaltheatrewales.org Wales, ewch i: nationaltheatrewales.org

Managing Director/Rheolwr Gyfarwyddwr Communications Officer/Swyddog Cyfathrebu Michelle Carwardine-Palmer Rhian Lewis @rhi_ntw @michelle_ntw Executive Producer/Cynhyrchydd Gweithredol Creative Associate/Cysylltydd Creadigol Lisa Maguire @lisa_ntw Simon Coates @simon_ntw Finance Officer/Swyddog Cyllid Production Co-ordinator/ Jenny McCarthy @jenny_ntw Cydlynydd Cynhyrchiad Fiona Curtis @fiona_ntw Artistic Director/Cyfarwyddwr Artistig John McGrath @john_ntw Head of Collaboration/Pennaeth Cydweithredu Devinda De Silva @devinda_ntw TEAM Assistant/Cynorthwyydd Team Anna Louise Poole @anna_ntw Head of Production/Pennaeth Cynhyrchu David Evans @david_ntw Creative Associate/Cysylltydd Creadigol Gavin Porter @gavin_ntw Head of Finance/Pennaeth Cyllid Stephen Grant @stephen_ntw Press & PR Manager/ Rheolwr y Wasg a Chysylltiadau Cyhoeddus Company Co-ordinator/Cyd-Drefnydd Y Cwmni Catrin Rogers @catrin_ntw Hannah Owen Griffiths @hannah_ntw Executive Assistant/Cynorthwyydd Gweithredol Digital Associate/Cysylltydd Digidol Mawgaine Tarrant-Cornish @Mawgaine Katherine Jewkes @katherine_ntw Development Assistant/Cynorthwyydd Datblygu Head of Communications/Pennaeth Cyfathrebu Jenny Sturt @JRSturt Matthew Lawton @matt_ntw PR Press/Cyswllt y Wasg Casting Director/Cyfarwyddwr Castio The Corner Shop Sam Jones C.D.G Graphic Designer/Dylunydd Graffig Casting Assistant/Cynorthwydd Castio Marc Heatley Lucy Taylor

BOARD OF TRUSTEES/BWRDD YMDDIRIEDOLWYR Steve Blandford, Bethan Cousins, Sian Ede, Phil George (Chair), Ian Hargreaves, Richard Hogger, Buddug James Jones, Richard Lynch, Gemma McAvoy (Vice Chair), Deborah Powell

NTW Programme.indd 6 22/04/2014 17:49:28 “NATIONAL THEATRE WALES REINVENTS THE LANGUAGE OF THEATRE EVERY TIME IT PUTS ON A SHOW” - The Daily Telegraph

NTW Programme.indd 7 22/04/2014 17:49:37 WALES THEATRE NATIONAL WITH COLLABORATION IN BBC CYMRU WALES CYMRU BBC

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