A Paly by Peter Read

Monday, 04 August

Tickets: £8 | £10

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Doors: 7pm

In the Ghost of Dylan Thomas we encounter him as he looks back on his life and the many personal mistakes made. We are with him as he watches a cast warm up for a performance of his play Under Milkwood. In addition, at night we watch him communicate with other poets in Poets Corner Westminster Abbey. He looks back on his career, how he is perceived today, and laments how his many relationships with women and particularly his marriage to Caitlin, disintegrated.

Peter Read was born in Rhosllanerchrugog and since 2004 has been a full time writer and performer. Over twenty of his plays have been performed professionally and in 2023 his book about Wrexham Football Club, From Hollywood To Wrexham was published by Y Lolfa.

His one man shows about Dylan Thomas have been performed throughout Britain and in 2014 he was commissioned by the then Secretary of State for Wales to write The Ghost Of Dylan Thomas, which will be performed at Ty Pawb. The play was written in 2014, the centenary anniversary year of Dylan’s birth. Peter has performed as Dylan Thomas in the Chelsea Hotel New York and in Ohio as part of the American and Canadian Welsh Festival.

Reviews:

It is testimony to Read’s script and performance that a one man show can conjure up the presence of Dylan’s women so convincingly.
(Derek Webb: Theatre in Wales)

Peter Read as Dylan Thomas is a fabulously hypnotic performer whose enthusiasm for his subject is self evident. This superlative production knocks similar efforts into a cocked hat
(Graham Williams Western Mail and South Wales Evening Post)