“This is the fantasy of the mind of the fantasist and dreamer Dylan Thomas. It is a place of country born shadows, city rough arse-backwards dawn, chittering in the shadows and the half formed sounds of the Gower moonlight.”
In his final days, Dylan looks back over his life and work and confronts his younger self, alive with promise and ambition. What has he become and what did he dream of? As Dylan relives the myriad twists and turns of a gloriously dysfunctional and rackety existence, we see the man behind the myth: a sober drunk, a valorous coward, a faithful philanderer and an unreliable but always devoted friend.
Out of Order was founded in 2005, with the production of Past Tense at the Old Red Lion in London. The company produces new work with a historic setting and occasional revivals and adaptations of rediscovered texts.
Full Price £6, Concessions £4-20 and Swansea PTL £2-40.
Tuesday, 3 November at 7.30pm: The Artist and the Poet. Noel Chanan introduces his film of Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin.
In 1983, film-maker and photographer Noel Chanan recorded an unrehearsed conversation between Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin in which they talked to him about their friendship and the nature of their artistic collaboration. This combined poetry and images in such works as Crow and Cave Birds. In this new 40-minute documentary, their previously unpublished dialogue, incorporating recitations by Hughes from his poems, is set over informal photographs of Hughes and Baskin, and extensive illustrations from Baskin's works.
Full Price £6, Concessions £4-20 and Swansea PTL £2-40.
Wednesday, 4 November at 7.30pm: W.B Yeats Celebration with the Dylan Thomas Staggering Players
Dylan was a great admirer of William Butler Yeats, generally acknowledged as one of the 20th century’s most important poets. Yeats died 70 years ago this year, and our loose group of local bards and performers, among them John Goodby, Nigel Jenkins, Peter Read, Margot Morgan, David Woolley and Malcolm Parr present an anthology of the great Irish poet’s finest works, chosen by John Goodby, including ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ and ‘The Second Coming’, as well as prose, and a song or two!
There is a small Yeats and Dylan Thomas Exhibition to accompany this event.
Full Price £6, Concessions £4-20 and Swansea PTL £2-40.
Buy tickets to any three festival events, and buy a ticket for a fourth event free.
The Dylan Thomas Centre Bookshop is open from 10am – 7.30pm throughout the festival.
There are plenty more Dylan Thomas Festival events to come! See http://www.swansea.gov.uk/
