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Kenneth Tynan on Under Milk Wood: a true comedy of humours by Kenneth Tynan

In this extract originally published in the Observer on 26 August 1956, Kenneth Tynan finds the first stage adaptation of Dylan Thomas's drama as gripping as it is uneventfulAt the theatre: Welsh wizardryFuture historians may well pronounce Under Milk Wood (Lyceum, Edinburgh) one of the last outposts of the ear in a period ruled by the eye. But I am not a future historian, and I gaze appalled on those who insist that…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM on February 28, 2014

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