l Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas wrote his radio play set in a small Welsh seaside town in 1953, and performed it live with a troupe of actors in New York, where he died shortly after, having delivered a completed draft to the BBC.
The first broadcast version featured Richard Burton in a part he repeated several times, including in a 1972 film version. Set in the fictitious town of Llareggub ('bugger all' backwards), the play for voices tells of the dreams and inner lives of the town's assorted inhabitants, and is now regarded as Thomas' masterpiece.
l Edwin Morgan's Dreams & Other Nightmares - Liz Lochhead's play about her friend and fellow poet Edwin Morgan first appeared at Glasgay! in 2011, a year after Morgan's death aged 90. Set in a care home and based around conversations with Morgan's biographer, Lochhead uses this as a jumping off point to look at Morgan's life as a gay man living a private life beyond his poetry in a vivid 80 minutes of memory, imagination and poetic longing.
l Beowulf - Written somewhere between the eighth and 11th century, Beowulf tells the fantastical tale of the eponymous hero, who comes to the aid of the Danes to slay the monster Grendel and the monster's mother. After returning to Sweden where he becomes king, Beowulf later slays a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the ensuing battle. The Old English poem has been seen in several versions, including ones by Edwin Morgan and Seamus Heaney, while American theatre company Banana Bag & Bodice won a Herald Angel for their musical version that was an Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit in 2008.
l Grimm Tales - Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy's stage adaptation of the Brothers Grimm's collection of fairy tales first appeared in 1996, and included versions of Snow White, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel and The Golden Goose.
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