Community fundraiser for the purchase of technical equipment for The State.
Sponsored by the Nittany Valley Shakespeare Festival

Directed by Susan Riddiford Shedd
Starring Centre County community members
     Under Milk Wood is a 1954 play for radio by Dylan Thomas, later adapted for the stage. A film version, Under Milk Wood directed by Andrew Sinclair, was released in 1972. An all-seeing narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of an imaginary small Welsh village, Llareggub ("bugger all" spelled backwards – though spelled in early editions as Llaregyb so as not to offend). They include Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, relentlessly bossing her two dead husbands; Captain Cat, reliving his seafaring times; the two Mrs. Dai Breads; Organ Morgan, obsessed with his music; and Polly Garter, pining for her dead lover. Later, the town wakes and, aware now of how their feelings affect whatever they do, we watch them go about their daily business.
“To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.” - opening lines, spoken by First Voice.
     “We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood” - prayer of the Reverend Eli Jenkins.

$5*