'Lulled and dumbfound': lockdown version of Under Milk Wood released

Key workers and youth theatre create strikingly apposite film of Dylan Thomas’s work about hushed Welsh village

Key workers including NHS staff, teachers and a vicar have joined stars of film, stage and television to produce a lockdown version of Dylan Thomas’s beloved play for voices, Under Milk Wood.

The cast, graduates of a youth theatre based in and around Thomas’s city of birth, Swansea, filmed themselves reciting a line or just a few words of the play’s first section, the haunting introduction to a sleeping Welsh fishing village.

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