Michael Sheen’s Under Milk Wood tweets

Tweets by Michael Sheen about his production of the Dylan Thomas play Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre in London, in 2021.

The tweets are in date order, most recent first.

We started from wanting him to be an actual character not a narrator. Someone who has an emotional stake in what’s happening rather than a neutral observer. So that immediately makes it different to the Burton version. You have to find what you connect with and build from there.
— michael sheen ? (@michaelsheen) October 22, 2021

Impossible to choose just one but certainly one of my favourites is – “A dog barks in his sleep, farmyards away.” Also – “In her life-long love-light holily Bessie milks the fond lake eyed cows as dusk showers slowly down over byre, sea and town.”
— michael sheen ? (@michaelsheen) July 25, 2021

“The coming of the end of the Spring day…” Diolch! ???????❤️??????? #UnderMilkWood @NationalTheatre pic.twitter.com/st6b7z9Oem
— michael sheen ? (@michaelsheen) July 24, 2021

Thanks for this Jim. I did indeed say ‘we’. I felt terrible for coming out of the play and breaking the illusion but it was happening so often I felt it had to be addressed as it was spoiling the experience for everyone. https://t.co/ilXF1mOchm
— michael sheen ? (@michaelsheen) July 9, 2021

Opening night of ‘Under Milk Wood’. Olivier Theatre, June 23rd, 2021, 17:51. Good luck everyone! #UnderMilkWood @NationalTheatre pic.twitter.com/ED2Tv7dhjY
— michael sheen ? (@michaelsheen) June 23, 2021

Well I’m willing to give it a go if they are.
— michael sheen ? (@michaelsheen) June 16, 2021

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