A play for voices, by Dylan Thomas
Lincoln-based Common Ground Theatre Company return to the Broadbent in October with a production of Under Milk Wood: a play for voices by Dylan Thomas.
The production will be set on the night of 28th July 1965, the 100th anniversary of Welsh settlers arriving in Patagonia on the clipper Mimosa.
These good people went on to found the towns of Gaiman, Dolavon, Trelew and Trevelin and a host of other settlements. Today there are upward of 5,000 Welsh speakers in Patagonia, and it is estimated that there are 70,000 inhabitants of Welsh descent. The inhabitants even hold Eisteddfodau that are bilingual, in both Patagonian Welsh and Argentine Spanish.
This will be a celebratory performance of Dylan Thomas’s iconic comic story of a close Welsh community performed as a live radio play, broadcast from the BBC’s Maida Vale studio, complete with microphones and Foley artists using 1960s radio techniques.
The performance will feature an ensemble of around a dozen actors and original live music and songs.
22nd to 24th October 2026, 7.30pm, £13 / £12 concessions
