This Screening is presented by Funnelwick Limb. Tickets are now only available on the door at the normal prices.
Kevin Allen directs this highly visual comedy adaptation of Dylan Thomas’s radio play, seventy years after its first broadcast. Set in the fictional Welsh fishing village of Llareggub, the story follows the lives and shenanigans of the residents who share their thoughts and dreams through the medium of poetry, including two-time widow Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard (Buddug Verona James), the music-obsessed Organ Morgan (Aneirin Hughes), good-time girl Polly Garter (Charlotte Church) and the old, blind seaman Captain Cat (Rhys Ifans).
The screen play was co-adapted by Murray Lachlan Young, Funnelwick Limb’s lead artist, who will be with us at the screening.
The Screening will be followed by a live Q & A with Director Kevin Allen & co-screen writer Murray Lachlan Young
About Kevin Allen
Allen came to prominence with the 1991 BBC film On the March with Bobby’s Army, and for writing and directing his debut feature film, Twin Town, in 1997. He directed and co-wrote the movie adaptation of Dylan Thomas’ “Under Milk Wood”, submitted for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2015 Oscars ceremony but not nominated, the Hollywood feature films, The Big Tease and Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, and the first series of ITV’s Benidorm, along with numerous other films and documentaries.
About Murray Lachlan Young
Murry Lachlan Youn is a British poet, stand-up performer, broadcaster, playwright, screenwriter and children’s author. He came to prominence during the Brit Pop era of the mid 1990’s, when he became the only poet to sign a contract worth £1m.
His work echoes the great rhymers Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Gilbert and Sullivan, along with more alternative influences such as Grandmaster Flash, Tom Waits and Ian Drury.
His satirical commentaries can read like RD Laing in their philosophical intensity, whilst their subjects range from the vanities of celebrity and middle-class angst, to highlighting the absurdities of modern life.
Currently the poet in residence on BBC 6 Music radio station, touring the UK with his solo stand-up show and the collection of his work ‘How Freakin’ Zeitgeist are you?’, published by Unbound books.
Funnelwick Limb are grateful to the following for the permission to screen the film:-
Kevin Allen
S4C
Tinopolis productions
Stephen Malit
The film carries a BBFC category of 15 (see https://www.bbfc.co.uk/rating/15)