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Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet

A drama documentary of the life and death of the poet Dylan Thomas, who died in New York 25 years ago at age 39. Alcohol and a doctor's injection of morphine were the immediate causes. Ever since his childhood in Wales his life was a spectacular attempt - comic at times, serious below the surface, tragic at the finish - to survive on his own bizarre terms as the poet to end all poets. By the 1950s, that first postwar decade of uneasiness and change, Dylan Thomas was a legend to his admirers but a burnt-out case to himself. As he tours America to read poetry to rapt audiences, his past crowds in on him, the fractured memories of a man at the end of his tether.

Top Cast

  • Ronald Lacey

    Ronald Lacey

    Dylan

  • Gayle Hunnicutt

    Gayle Hunnicutt

    Liz

  • Ed Bishop

    Ed Bishop

    Prof. Goonmeyer

  • Kate Harper

    Kate Harper

    Connie Goonmeyer

  • Valerie Colgan

    Valerie Colgan

    Imogen McLewis

  • Norman Chancer

    Norman Chancer

    Prof. McLewis

  • Hilary Ryan

    Hilary Ryan

    Girl student

  • Rhoda Lewis

    Rhoda Lewis

    Florence Thomas

  • Clifford Evans

    Clifford Evans

    D.J. Thomas

Overview

A drama documentary of the life and death of the poet Dylan Thomas, who died in New York 25 years ago at age 39. Alcohol and a doctor's injection of morphine were the immediate causes. Ever since his childhood in Wales his life was a spectacular attempt - comic at times, serious below the surface, tragic at the finish - to survive on his own bizarre terms as the poet to end all poets. By the 1950s, that first postwar decade of uneasiness and change, Dylan Thomas was a legend to his admirers but a burnt-out case to himself. As he tours America to read poetry to rapt audiences, his past crowds in on him, the fractured memories of a man at the end of his tether.

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