The recording was made at the first staged reading of Under Milk Wood in NYC My 1953. Thomas had been writing the script for over a decade, but was still handing the actors rewrites up to the last minute. Six months later he was dead. At the reading someone set a mic on the stage on a whim, and it remains the only recording of Thomas reading Under Milk Wood. Beautiful.

We are a group of young actors from everywhere brought together by this fictitious Welsh fishing village. Not to be missed.