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Last modified on Wed 4 Aug 2021 01.31 EDT Tall plane trees, hanging baskets and pavement cafes line pedestrianised Wind Street as it passes the ruined castle. I don’t know what I expected Swansea to look like but it wasn’t quite this. My preconceptions were partly based on Dylan Thomas’s “ugly, lovely town” by the sea, “white-horsed and full of fishes”. After three hours on an air-conditioned Great Western Railways train from London, I’m striding past the 17th-century No Sign bar towards the city’s five-mile-long beach. Any lingering doubts about Swansea as a holiday base ar...

The best theatre in the UK this June Ian McKellen returns as Hamlet—plus the family drama of Johann Sebastian Bach Under Milk Wood, National Theatre, 16th June to 24th July Dylan Thomas’s 1954 radio play has often been done on the stage, but perhaps never so poignantly as in this post-pandemic version of the small Welsh village of Llareggub (“Bugger all” backwards) awakening with a renewed sense of community. The audience may be socially distanced, but the Olivier auditorium is reconfigured in-the-round. The cast is led by Michael Sheen and Siân Phillips, veterans of the piece on r...