OPENING OCTOBER 7TH, 2005
An Claidheamh Soluis/The Celtic Arts Center
in association with East Hollywood Players proudly presents...

DYLAN
by Sydney Michaels

“He’s in a strange country. He needs guidance. This is a major event in world literature.
This is the coming to America of Dylan Thomas.”


October 7th – November 13th, 2005
Fridays – Saturdays at 8PM
Sundays at 2PM

$18 General Admission
($15 for ACS/CAC Members, Seniors, Students, 4-As)
RESERVATIONS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.

*NOTE: No performance on
Saturday Oct. 15th.

Directed by...
Barry Lynch

Starring...
Kevin Kearns as Dylan Thomas
Karen Ryan as his wife Caitlin

Also starring...
Joe Cardinale, Jody Carter, Austin Grehan, Michael LaRose, Robin Leabman, John McKenna, David Mersole, Deirdre Moore, Patricia Rigney, Jennifer Ruckman, and Bethalynn Staples.

[ * denotes actor is member of AEA ]

DYLAN
by Sydney Michaels
at the Celtic Arts Center’s Sean Fallon Walsh Theater.

Twenty years ago, the Celtic Arts Center celebrated the opening of its small Hollywood storefront with a production of DYLAN, the Sidney Michaels drama about the final turbulent years of celebrated Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, based on Dylan Thomas in America by John Malcolm Brinnin, and Leftover Life to Kill by Caitlin Thomas. Opening night was 11 October 1985, and award-winning actor Barry Lynch was playing the famously wild, ragingly alcoholic writer. Now, two decades later, Lynch is the Center’s new Stúirthóir (Executive Director) and he is helming the twenty-year anniversary production of the show, which opens on 7 October 2005 — just four days shy of the original opening.

Dylan Thomas was a deeply passionate, emotional writer who is remembered for his intensely personal and lyrical style. He is frequently mentioned in the company of other such respected poets as T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and William Butler Yeats in lists of the most important poets of the twentieth century. To this day, he remains the outstanding figure in Anglo-Welsh literature. He is best known for his poems And Death Shall Have No Dominion and Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, as well as the short story A Child’s Christmas in Wales and the remarkable radio play, Under Milkwood, which later became a stage play, and then a film starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O’Toole, and Glynis Johns.

DYLAN is set in 1950’s Wales and America, during the time when Dylan Thomas was traveling between the two countries and cultures on an extended poetry tour that turned into an outlet for his chaotic, alcoholic nature, and for which he eventually paid the ultimate price.

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