A Boy Growing Up is Actor Emlyn Williams reciting or interpreting or impersonating Dylan Thomas' tales of his "young dog" daysat least for a while. After that, performer and storyteller triumphantly become one. On a stage with a single chair. Williams expands into a lusty segment of Wales, a mad but exact re-creation of childhood, a whole lurching animal-orchestra of fun. Williams is Dylan Thomas and Thomas' characters and Thomas as a character. But quite as deftly as he has dug into the people,
Williams has dug into the prose, focusing every sharp-eyed, cockeyed image, finding a broomstick for every daffy, airborne...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
