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DYLAN THOMAS FESTIVAL 2008 Welcome to the eleventh Festival honouring the life and work of Dylan Thomas. The eleventh festival, and thus our ten year anniversary. The emphasis this year is on ‘Performing Dylan’ – lots of dramatic performances and readings, radio and film showings, and a special exhibition of Dylan on stage, lecture platform, radio and TV. We also take the opportunity to celebrate ten years of the festival with all those who have been most involved in that decade, and highlight the second International Dylan Thomas Prize. Plus the usual mix of genres and writers from Wales and beyond. Enjoy! Tickets: ALL tickets priced £6-50. Concessions: £4-55. Swansea Passport to Leisure: £2-60, unless otherwise stated. FESTIVAL OFFER – Buy THREE £6-50 etc. tickets and get a FOURTH FREE!! Tickets for certain events will be available via our website. Please follow the Dylan Thomas Festival link on www.dylanthomas.com to purchase tickets online Thursday 23 October - 7.30pm
Carol Ann Duffy and Robert Minhinnick An early start to the festival this year as we welcome one of Britain’s best and best loved poets. Widely tipped as the next Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy has published many collections of poetry, full of originality, passion and acerbic Carol Ann Duffy wit. She reads with one of Wales’ foremost Robert poets, award-winning essayist and former editor of Poetry Wales, Minhinnick Robert Minhinnick. Friday 24 October – 7.30pm
Dylan Thomas Centre and Swansea Bay Asylum Seekers Support Group present
an evening of Poetry & Music With guest poet Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac ‘Gaariye’ from Somaliland – a Gaariye poet of enormous importance in his home land. Also appearing will be Swansea-based Humberto Gatica and Adel Guemar, and music from Lakhdar Inigan. Supported by The Poetry Translation Centre. www.poetrytranslation.org FREE ENTRY Saturday 25 October – 1pm
Warmley - Dylan Thomas and Daniel Jones
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Dylan’s boyhood friendship with the composer was a vital one. Their mutual affection and love for words and sound manifested itself in the ‘Warmley Broadcasting Corporation’. In this moving monologue Dan- brilliantly played by Adrian Metcalfe - looks back on their friendship, punctuated by generous helpings of Jones’ undervalued music beautifully played by pianist Rob Marshall.
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Saturday 25 October 7.30pm
Performing Dylan: two rarely-seen short films Florence Thomas - a 1992 Dylan Thomas Society colour video film directed by D.J. ’TV’ Thomas in 1992. It is an Alan Bennett style talking head play, 25 minutes long starring Win Rees as Dylan’s mother. This talented actress is now aged 90, and still living in Swansea. (Win and her husband managed the Swansea Empire Theatre in Oxford Street, demolished in 1960). The script is by the late Ethel Ross (Dylan’s artist friend Alfred Janes' sister in law) and is based very closely on conversations and notes taken down by Ethel, a good friend of Florrie. Emlyn Williams Tells the Story of 'The Outing' A charming 15 minute black and white film - no intro or credits... but made in 1956, produced again by D.J.’TV’ Thomas. It is a wonderfully camp but very accomplished performance, by one of Wales’ greatest actors. Both films will be introduced by Dylan expert Jeff Towns. FREE ENTRY Sunday 26 October 12.30 for 1pm
Dylan Thomas Society of Great Britain Birthday LuncheoN with Guest speaker, Swansea/London actor Gareth Armstrong ‘Taking Wings with Words’. Tickets: £20, from Cecily Hughes on 01792 363875 Sunday 26 October 3.30pm at The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
A talk by Keith Bayliss
The Visual Word: collaboration between artists and writers in Wales - a contemporary view Keith Bayliss was born in Swansea and studied at The Swansea College of Art and Sheffield Polytechnic where he gained a BA in Fine Art in 1977. He developed the Community Arts Service for the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and also worked as an artist in schools. He devised both the first Ceri Richards Festival in 1990 and the Ceri Richards Centenary Festival in 2003. Keith now works as a full-time painter and his powerful and expressive work has been shown extensively in Swansea, Wales and Europe. He has worked closely with writers and literature throughout his career and this lecture will reflect and respond to this. Monday 27 October 3pm
Afternoon Tea at Florrie and D.J’s Anne and Geoff Haden have spent three years restoring Dylan’s birthplace to its condition as a new house in 1914 when the Thomas family moved in. The house will be used as an experiential holiday destination. This official opening by Dylan’s daughter Aeronwy Thomas will be by invite only. For further information on the house see www.5cwmdonkin.com or contact info@5cwmdonkindrive.com 01792 405331.
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Monday 27 October 7.30pm
FILM - The EdgE of Love A special showing of the new Dylan Thomas film starring Matthew Rhys as Dylan, Sienna Miller as Caitlin and Keira Knightley as Dylan’s childhood sweetheart Vera Phillips. Also starring Cillian Murphy and directed by the award-winning John Maybury. This screening celebrates the release of the DVD of the film. Keep your ticket stub to get £1-00 off purchase of the DVD in the Dylan Thomas Centre shop. In Association with Lionsgate Films. Tuesday 28 October 7.30pm
‘The Peaches’ and ‘Who do you wish was with us?’ Festival favourites Fluellen Theatre Company presents rehearsed readings of two more adaptations of Dylan’s extraordinary short stories, by Gwynne Edwards, who also adapted Dylan’s words into Dylan Thomas in America, the one-man show made famous by Peter Read. Wednesday 29 October 6.30pm
Book Launch - Fatal Neglect: Who Killed Dylan Thomas? by David N. Thomas The film rights of David’s first book, Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow, were sold to make The Edge of Love. Now he launches Fatal Neglect, “an enthralling study of the poet’s death”. The book’s premise is that John Brinnin, Dylan’s American agent, “had a playboy lifestyle, with an expensive habit to fund”. Drawing on Brinnin’s intimate papers, David reveals “how greed, ambition and sexual intrigue fed into a chain of neglect that sent Dylan to an early grave.” The launch will introduced by poet and writer Aeronwy Thomas, Dylan’s daughter. Free entry and wine. In association with Seren Books. Wednesday 29 October 7.30pm
'The liquid choirs of his tribes': the influence of Dylan Thomas A lecture by Dr. John Goodby Contrary to current critical wisdom, Dylan Thomas was not a poetic dead-end. Indeed, for all the claims about its lack of relevance to today's writers, his work has exercised a powerful, if subtle and Dr. John Goodby subterranean influence on some of the best British and American poetry of the last fifty years. As well as discussing those most obviously indebted to Thomas, such as W. S. Graham, John Goodby will show how Thomas's example shaped the writing of poets as different as John Berryman, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Roy Fisher, Edwin Morgan and contemporary linguistically innovative experimental poets such as Denise Riley. Moreover, in a world of oil wars and ecocide, in which politicians craft their 'ordinariness' to better serve the interests of global conglomerates and imperial powerbrokers, Goodby will argue that Thomas's is the mid-century poetic voice we have to listen to if either poetry or the planet are to have a future. 4
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Thursday 30 October 7.30pm
What Brings You Here So Late? Tony Conran One of Wales’ most revered and distinguished poets, Conran has this year published a new, long, autobiographical poem. What Brings You Here So Late? is a moving evocation of what it was like to grow up with cerebral palsy in wartime Wales, moves through student years, becoming a poet, being a Catholic, the Thatcher years, and finally, coming to grips with death. Tony Conran will be introduced by Swansea poet, writer and lecturer Nigel Jenkins. Friday 31 October 7.30pm
Dr. and the Devils and ‘The heavenly music over The sand’ Fluellen Theatre Company and Delyth Jenkins A reading of a work-in-progress, Peter Richards’ adaptation of Dylan’s masterly re-telling of the Burke & Hare story, performed by Fluellen Theatre Company. Alongside this, Swansea harpist Delyth will present a programme of music specially written for Fluellen’s Under Milk Wood, A Beast an Angel and a Madman and Dr.and the Devils. Peter Saturday 1 November 1pm Read
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Peter Read stars once again in Gwynne Edwards’ adaptation from Dylan’s letters and broadcasts. Read has played Thomas over one hundred times, many in this masterly monologue. This funny, poignant and hugely moving portrayal has garnered five star reviews and standing ovations in Edinburgh, New York and many other places. If you have never seen it, don’t miss it – if you have you will want to see it again! Saturday 1 November 7pm
Crow & Ten Years After - A Decade of The Dylan Thomas Festival
‘Crow’ by Leonard Baskin
The Dylan Thomas Centre’s loose band of staggering players presents an evening of readings and music. Dylan Thomas was a big influence on the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, and we present a selection from his seminal work Crow (1970). This will be followed by ‘the Grateful Alive!’ - readings and music to celebrate 10 years of the festival by those who have played a major part! Taking part will be David Woolley, Jo Furber and Huw Davie from the Dylan Thomas Centre, Nigel Jenkins, Peter Read, John Goodby, Malcolm Parr, Jen Wilson, Phil Bowen, Jeff Towns, Aeronwy Thomas, Angela Coldrick and Margot Morgan.
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Sunday 2 November 7.30pm
Anything but Love - The Two Dorothys by Phil Bowen Long-time festival favourite Phil Bowen presents another exciting new piece of work about two women who made a mark in a showbusiness era when they were seldom seen or heard ‘behind the curtain’. Poet and writer Dorothy Parker is well-known for her cutting wit, through such famous quotes as “Men Dorothy Parker seldom make passes/at girls who wear glasses”. Dorothy Fields is lessknown, yet her words will be as familiar to many, as the lyricist of such towering standards as ‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’, ‘A Fine Romance’ and ‘The Way You look Tonight’. In this new work, Phil brings these two trail-blazing women together, to sing, joke and reminisce. Directed by Dominic Brewer and starring Bridgend-born poet, actress and singer Rhian Edwards, and actress Kali Hughes, whose recent credits include Oedipus Rex, The Tempest and Macbeth, with Swansea’s Peter Rhian Edwards Kali Hughes Williams on piano. Monday 3 November 7.30pm
Gillian Clarke and Meirion Jordan Wales’ current Poet Laureate, Gillian is one of the most significant voices in Welsh poetry. She will read from her substantial body of work, and introduce a short reading from an exciting new voice she rates very highly, Meirion Jordan. Meirion was born Gillian Clarke in Cwmllynfell, near Swansea, and read Mathematics at Oxford. He has just finished an MA in creative writing at UEA, Norwich, and his first collection of poetry is Meirion Jordan published by Seren. Tuesday 4 November 7.30pm
The Animated Under Milk Wood A special showing of this splendid animated version of Dylan’s classic ‘play for voices’, with Richard Burton as an incomparable ‘first voice’. We celebrate the re-launch of this film on DVD, after several years of unavailability. Tickets £3.00 £2.00 for Under 16s & Keep your ticket stub to get £1.00 off purchase of the DVD in the Dylan Thomas Centre shop. In association with Calon, formerly Siriol.
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Wednesday 5 November 7.30pm
The Dylan Thomas Prize Short List Nam Le and Edward Hogan will be introduced by one of the Prize Judges, and will read from their work and take questions from the audience. Nam Le was born in Vietnam and raised Nam Le Edward Hogan in Australia. The Boat is a stunningly inventive, deeply moving fiction debut: stories that take the readers from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to Iowa City; from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea, in a masterful display of literary virtuosity and feeling. Edward Hogan was born in Derby, in 1980. Blackmoor centres around a small mining community and Edward says he chose this setting because he wanted to find out more about the place he grew up. It's a regional book, about the midlands and the north and what has happened to the mining communities since people have stopped mining. His split time-frame is combined with multiple narrative perspectives, which enable him to dig deep into his characters. He is aided by writing that is charged with a bite and passion harking back to his Northern forebears; D.H. Lawrence, most obviously, with a passing touch of Charlotte Brontë. Thursday 6 November – 7.30pm
The Dylan Thomas Prize Short List Caroline Bird and Dinaw Mengestu will be introduced by one of the Prize Judges, and will read from their work and take questions from the audience. Caroline Bird was born in 1986. She grew up in Leeds before moving to London in 2001. She won the Poetry Society's Simon Elvin Young Poet of the Year Award two years running (1999 and 2000) Dinaw Mengestu Caroline Bird and won an Eric Gregory Award in 2002. Her first collection, Looking Through Letterboxes, built on the traditions of fairy tale, fantasy and romance, was published in 2002. Her second collection, Trouble Came to the Turnip, was published in September 2006. She is currently studying English at Oxford University. In Trouble Came to the Turnip, Bird’s poems are ferociously vital, fantastical, sometimes violent, almost always savagely humorous and self-mocking. Her world is inhabited by failed and (less often) successful relationships, by the dizzying crisis of early adulthood, by leprechauns and spells and Miss Pringle's seven lovely daughters waiting to spring out of a cardboard cake. And the turnip. Dinaw Mengestu was born in Ethiopia in 1978 and is a graduate of Georgetown and Columbia Universities. He works as a journalist and reviewer and is researching a book tracing his extended family’s exile from Ethiopia following the 1974 revolution. Children of the Revolution won the Guardian First Book Award in 2007. Children of the Revolution is a book about one man’s longing for the American dream, and of the tenacious grip of the past across continents and time. It is a tale of an Ethiopian immigrant’s search for acceptance, peace and identity. With effortless prose, Mengestu makes the reader feel this tortured soul’s longings, regrets, and in the end, his dreams of meaningful human connection. 23 October - 10 November
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Friday 7 November – 9.15am – 5.30pm
Raymond Williams Conference
Raymond Williams’s Culture and Society: Fifty Years On Appearing in 1958, Raymond Williams’s seminal volume Culture and Society offered a history of the ‘idea of culture’ as it developed in response to industrialism. Challenging dominant forms of elitism and paternalism, the book reinforced Williams’s claim that ‘culture is ordinary’ and sought to endorse the positive cultural values promoted by working-class creativity. In the 50 years since its publication the book has generated a great deal of criticism and debate and this one day symposium invites some of Britain’s most challenging thinkers to explore Raymond Williams both the making and afterlife of Williams’s career-making volume with reference to issues such as culture, class, national identity, literature and politics. Arranged by CREW (Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales), with support from the Raymond Williams Society, the conference is timely in that 2008 has seen the appearance of Professor Dai Smith’s celebrated biography of Williams, A Warrior’s Tale, and the handing over of the Raymond Williams Papers to the library at Swansea University. The speakers are: Professor Stefan Collini, Cambridge. Professor Dai Smith, Swansea. Professor Catherine Belsey, Swansea. Anthony Barnett, Open Democracy. Film producer Colin Thomas will discuss and screen his award-winning documentary ‘Border Crossing’. Registration: Full: £45. Students: £30 (Includes all papers, morning and afternoon tea/coffee, and lunch). Online booking available via the Dylan Thomas Festival Website. Organiser: Dr. Daniel G. Williams, CREW (Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales), Swansea University. daniel.g.williams@swansea.ac.uk Friday 7 November 7.30pm
The Dylan Thomas Prize Short List Ross Raisin and Ceridwen Dovey will be introduced by one of the Prize Judges, and will read from their work and take questions from the audience. Ross Raisin was born in Yorkshire and now lives in London. God’s Ross Raisin Ceridwen Dovey Own Country is told through the eyes of the narrator, Sam Marsdyke - the teenage son of a farmer up on the Yorkshire Moors, who spends his days working the sheep, mending fences and trying to dodge the eye of his brutal, silent father. One day a young daughter of a new family catches his eye. As he falls for the young, sophisticated girl from London, she begins to see him as a means to escape but this journey across the moors takes a terrifying menacing turn which, for Sam, will prove his terrible undoing. Ceridwen Dovey was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, in 1980. She went to high school in Sydney, Australia and now lives in New York City. Blood Kin is a story of a president overthrown by a military coup in a nameless country, and in the midst of mass arrests, three members of the Presidential household – his barber, chef and portraitist – are taken hostage in a remote mountain palace. As the order falls, the truth about these men and significant lives is revealed, and the web of complicity and duplicity begins to unravel. Dovey’s mesmerizing debut grapples with humanity’s most mercenary and animalistic instincts, and reminds the reader that the mad king is within us all. 8
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Saturday 8 November 10.00am – 1.30pm
SW Wales Reader’s Day The Dylan Thomas Centre and Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Carmarthenshire, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Bridgend, Powys & Pembrokeshire Library Authorities Present an opportunity to hear and discuss the work of four of the shortlisted writers for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Nam Le, Ross Raisin, Ceredwen Dovey and Dinaw Mengestu. Readers will get an unique opportunity to meet these extraordinarily talented young writers from across the world, and to find out what inspires and motivates their talents. Alex Pryce from the Arts Council of England funded project PoetCasting will also be present, recording invited Swansea poets and promoting this poetry ‘podcasting’ enterprise. Event supported by CYMAL, Academi and The Dylan Thomas Prize. £10 including coffees Saturday 8 November 7.00pm
‘The Art of Conversation’ with Alison Hindell The World Premiere of a newly discovered Dylan Thomas radio play An unique chance to be in the first audience to hear a new BBC Radio Four drama. This Dylan ‘curio’ is a short piece of wartime propaganda, recently discovered by his biographer Andrew Lycett at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas. Lycett explains that it is unclear if this piece was intended as a film or a radio play. It is a witty talk on the decline of conversation, with ‘contributions’ from the likes of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Dr. Johnson, which frequently reminds the listener that ‘careless talk costs lives’. Tonight will be an opportunity to hear this 30 minute drama before it is broadcast nationally, introduced by Alison Hindell, Head of BBC Radio Drama, who directed the new recording. The evening will be presented by D.J.Britton, playwright, radio-dramatist and lecturer in Creative Writing at Swansea University who has interviewed Andrew Lycett on the subject. After the play itself, Alison Hindell will conduct a question and answer session on Dylan and his radio work, with reference to her own much acclaimed 2003 production of Under Milk Wood, which blended Richard Burton’s narration with new performances from the cream of current Welsh actors. FREE ENTRY but tickets MUST be reserved. Also on 8 November, Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlisted writers - Caroline Bird will be running a Poetry Workshop for our Swansea Young Writers’ Squad, and Edward Hogan will be running a FREE Prose Workshop for adults. (10am – 12.30pm) To book a FREE place please contact David Woolley - david.woolley@swansea.gov.uk / 01792 463980 Sunday 9 November 2.30pm
On the Dylan Trail in New York
Aeronwy Thomas and Peter Thabit Jones
23 October - 10 November
Aeronwy Thomas and Peter Thabit Jones Earlier this year, Dylan’s daughter Aeronwy and Swansea poet Peter bravely followed in the great man’s footsteps, with a reading tour of the US, organised by Stanley Barkan/Cross-Cultural Communications. Happily, they both survived, and also managed to devise a new ‘Dylan Thomas New York Trail’. The two will discuss their trip, talk about the Trail, and read from their own work and from Dylan’s. 9
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Sunday 9 November 7pm
Introducing the Editors Kathryn Gray and Zoe Skoulding Two of Wales’ longest-running and most important literary journals, Poetry Wales and New Welsh Review, have both recently appointed new, young Zoe Skoulding editors. Both also happen to be Kathryn Gray very fine poets. Kathryn and Zoe will read from their work and discuss the process of editing magazines, and their plans for the future of these vital publications. The evening will be chaired by renowned literary critic Professor M.Wynn Thomas of CREW – the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales. Copies of magazines will be available at reduced rates to those attending! Sunday 9 November 9pm
Song of the Earth To finish the festival in celebratory fashion a folk concert featuring traditional music, songs and readings about life, love and work in south Wales. The performance takes its title from Alexander Cordell's classic novel of the Neath and Dulais valleys. It draws on the works of other Welsh writers and poets, including Bert Coombes, Idris Davies and George Evans. The show explores how the historical context of south Wales, has shaped and moulded the contemporary Welsh identity. It uses the past experiences of miners, immigrants and working class people to explore modern day themes. The concert includes traditional songs by writers such as Stephen Foster and Woody Guthrie to reflect the experiences that workers across the world shared with each other. The concert is performed by local musicians, songwriters and storytellers using acoustic instruments such as the banjo, harmonicas, guitars and fiddles, audience participation is positively encouraged. Tickets £3-00/£2-10/£1-20 Monday 10 November
Second Dylan Thomas Prize Awards Dinner A spectacular gala dinner to announce the winner of the £60,000 prize! For details see www.dylanthomasprize.com
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Exhibitions From late October until further notice
Performing Dylan An Exhibition exploring Dylan Thomas as a performer on stage, lecture platform, radio and TV, together with a look at the performance of his work in all media - on the stage, TV and film. The exhibition will start by looking at Dylan's schoolboy dramatic performances and then his work in Swansea Amateur Dramatics. It will go on to cover his diverse radio work and two lost TV shows as well as looking at his work in the film industry as both a feature film writer and documentary maker. His career as a public reader and lecturer in the UK and more famously in America will also be covered. Another section will look at the various adaptations and productions of his work on stage and in film and television. The exhibition will use materials from the Dylan Thomas Centre Collection supplemented with materials from the Collection of Jeff Towns/Dylans Bookstore. Items from the film The Edge of Love will also be on display, including costumes worn by Keira Knightley (Vera Phillips), Matthew Rhys (Dylan Thomas) and Sienna Miller (Caitlin Thomas). The exhibition will run from late October until further notice. Exhibition curated by Jeff Towns, and Jo Furber of the Dylan Thomas Centre. 20 October – 16 November
UglY lovely Town A collection of drawings and sound in four parts, inspired by the city of Swansea and its intrinsic relationship with Dylan Thomas. The work comprises of 9 graphite images created in a filmic style. The images are a series of traces that map a route that devotees of Dylan may follow. The route commences with the first step outside Dylan's birthplace at Cwmdonkin Drive, culminating at the first step into the Dylan Thomas exhibition at The Dylan Thomas Centre. Work 2 is a printed copy of the original work which is intended to echo the printed written work of Dylan. Work 3 is the sound recorded at each of the 9 sites whilst creating the original work. Work 4 has been inspired by the recorded sound and is an interpretation of the sounds in shape and colour.
Other Related Events October 25th, 10 - 4.00
Royal Institution Local History Bookfair at Swansea Museum Authors, antiquarian booksellers, publishers, archives service, history societies, fine local postcards, etc. Free Entry 27 – 29 October 7.30pm
After Milk Wood a new play by Geraint Thomas
Call Swansea Grand Theatre for tickets. 01792 475242
30 October – 1 November 7.30pm
UNDer Milk Wood at Swansea Little Theatre, Dylan Thomas Theatre, The Marina.
Tickets £8/£6. Available from Little Theatre 01792 473238 or from the Dylan Thomas Centre.
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