Charlotte Church and Neil Kinnock join 'erotic, visceral' Under Milk Wood film

Rugby player Gareth Thomas also joins the cast, led by Rhys Ifans, assembled for a film version of Dylan Thomas's 'play for voices'

A host of celebrated Welsh figures have joined an upcoming film version of Dylan Thomas's timeless 'play for voices', Under Milk Wood.

Originally a radio drama, in Under Milk Wood Thomas created the Welsh village of Llareggub, with the audiences listening first to the dreams of its sleeping inhabitants and then following their lives as they awake. Singer Charlotte Church will play one of the lead characters, Polly Garter, who pines for a dead lover, while Rhys Ifans will be the omniscient narrator that Richard Burton famously voiced in both the original radio play and the 1972 film version.

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