Mr Pugh - schoolmaster and aspiring poisoner. Mrs Pugh - nagging wife and potential victim of Mr Pugh's aspirations. Polly Garter - addicted to "having babies." Mrs. Dai Bread One - "nice to be comfy." Mrs. Dai Bread Two - "gypsied to kill in a silky scarlet petticoat." Dai Bread - baker Mrs. Willy Nilly Postman - always ready to steam open the mail. Willy Nilly - postman P.C. Atilla Rees Rev. Eli Jenkins - preacher, bardic poet and local historian. Mary Ann Sailors - Owner of The Sailors' Arms - "I'm eighty five years, three months and a day!" Sinbad Sailors - landlord of The Sailors' Arms - "I dote on that Gossamer Beynon." Mrs. Cherry Owen Mr. Cherry Owen - riotous drunkard. Ocky Milkman Bessie Bighead - "Who was kissed once when she wasn't looking but was never kissed again even though she was looking all the time." Mrs. Utah Watkins Mr. Utah Watkins - owner of Salt Lake Farm. Mrs. Organ Morgan - "a martyr to music." Organ Morgan - organist and lover of Bach. Lily Smalls - Mrs. Beynon's treasure. Gossamer Beynon - schoolteacher - "I'll never be refined if I twitch." Mrs. Beynon Butcher Beynon Mr. Ogmore - first husband of Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard. Deceased. Mr. Pritchard - second husband of Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard. Deceased. Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard - "... and before you let the sun in, mind it wipes its shoes." Lord Cut-Glass - dilapidated gentleman and obsessive collector of clocks. NogoodBoyo - "I want to be good Boyo, but nobody'll let me." Mae Rose Cottage - "Seventeen and never been kissed ho ho." Mr. Waldo Evans the Death - undertaker. Jack Black - cobbler and scourge of sinners in Lovers' Lane. Mr. Mog Edwards - "a draper mad with love", nursing an un-requited passion for Myfanwy Price. Myfanwy Price - sweetshop proprietress, nursing an un-requited passion for Mog Edwards. Rosie Probert - now dead, lover of Captain Cat. "Knock twice, Jack, at the door of my grave and ask for Rosie." Captain Cat - blind ex-sea captain.

Under Milk Wood (character sketches)

Character sketches for Dylan Thomas's 'play for voices' "UNDER MILK WOOD" at the Timms Centre for the Arts, University of Alberta in Canada. The director was Tom Peacocke.

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