Javea Grapevine Issue 176 - LARGE FONT EDITION | Page 110

BBC, ‘A Return Journey to Swansea’.
The readers captured the energy, humour and creativity
of Wales’ best-known
poet for an appreciative audience.

Dylan
Thomas
Inspired
Whip-round

Once again (April 29),
the Javea Players’
Studio Theatre had
a near capacity audience.

Jávea
Players

On stage were members of the Javea Book
Circle reading their
presentation ‘Before
Milkwood’, an adaptation of three of Dylan Thomas’s much
admired pieces of
prose, two short stories, ‘A Visit to Grandpa’s’ and ‘The Outing’
and his script for the

When he introduced
the presentation the
Javea Players’ Chairman, Mike Harvey,
confessed his strong
Swansea
connections and suggested that members of
the audience, who so
wished, could use the
basket on the bar to
make a donation to
the Nepal Earthquake
Appeal.
A whip-round
at
the bar might well
have been the way
Dylan would go about
helping a very worthy
cause – it certainly
worked wonders last
Wednesday - 255
euros found their way
into the basket.