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23 June
The National Theatre opened its doors to audiences again in June, with its smallest auditorium the Dorfman being quickly followed by its largest the Olivier (with the Lyttelton belatedly emerging from the Covid lockdown darkness in October).
No doubt in a bid to encourage as many punters back as possible, the show chosen to reopen the Olivier was Dylan Thomas’s much-loved lyrical drama Under Milk Wood.
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First, let it be said that the stripped-down in-the-round presentation suits this play very well; after all, it did begin life on radio (in ), and ultimately the spoken word is the thing.
Second, any fears that may have been engendered by the credit on the programme “additional material by Siân Owen” are immediately justified by a long and lacklustre opening scene littered with references to emails and such, placing most of the familiar characte