Game Of Thrones actor Owen Teale to star in Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood at York Theatre Royal

Premiering at Clywd Theatr Cymru, Terry Hands’s production marks the centenary of Thomas’s birth, as well as the 60th anniversary since Under Milk Wood was first produced in Britain as a radio play by the BBC in 1954.

Under Milk Wood was written from the heart by Thomas as both a play and a poem that glories in language and ventures into the soul of Wales.

In Llareggub, a small Welsh town by the sea, you will meet blind Captain Cat, Mog Edwards and his sweetheart, Miss Price, Sinbad Sailor, Dai Bread, Polly Garter, Nogood Boyo and Lord Cut Glass.

Thomas explores their lives, hopes and thoughts “in the dreams of a night and the rhythm of a day” as his story takes a walk along Coronation Street, Cockle Row and Donkey Street, down to the little fishing harbour and back to Milk Wood.

Teale, who plays series regular Ser Alliser in Game Of Thrones, won the Tony Award for Best Actor for his Broadway performance in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and starred alongside Zoë Wanamaker in Peter Nichols’s Passion Play in the West End.

He is joined in the Clwyd Theatr Cymru production by Torchwood actor Kai Owen, Brendan Charles, Ifan Huw-Dafydd, Richard Elin-Salt, Charlotte Gray, Sara Harris-Davis, Sophie Melville, Steve Meo, Caryl Morgan, Simon Nehan and Christian Patterson.

Director Terry Hands founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre in 1964, became joint artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company with Trevor Nunn in 1978 and has been director of Clwyd Theatr Cymru since 1997.

He won the Laurence Olivier and London Critics Circle Theatre Awards for Best Director for Cyrano de Bergerac in 1983 and the London Evening Standard and London Critics Circle Theatre Awards for best director for Tamburlain The Great a decade later.

Tickets for the 7.30pm evening performances, 2pm Thursday matinee and 2.30pm Saturday matinee are on sale on 01904 623568 or at yorktheatreroyal.co.uk