Hamilton ‘ 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Theater will present the play Dylan by Sidney Michaels March 2 through 4 in Little Brehmer Theater. Directed by Jacques Levy, professor of English and director of University Theater, the performances will be held at 8:00 p.m. on March 2, 3 and 4 as well as a matinee performance on Sunday, March 4 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $5.00 general admission and $3.00 for students and seniors. Reservations are advised; please call the box office at 315-228-7641/7639 to reserve seats.
The play’s origin stems from a whirlwind reading tour that the romantic Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, made during the 1950s. While touring in America, Thomas cut a wide, rough swath through its literary landscape, leaving any number of astonished academicians, lovers of poetry, ‘groupies,’ and newly recruited drinking buddies in his path. Unfortunately, the poet did not come out of the trip alive. What survives are the memories of his magnificent, full-out, committed readings and the new script of his lovely verse play, Under Milk Wood. Sidney Michaels’s play takes those memories and intertwines them with actual accounts written by Dylan’s wife and his closest associate, to tell the story of Dylan Thomas’s last wild, tumultuous year in an honest, unvarnished, and oftentimes times funny manner.
Founded in 1819, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø is a nationally ranked, highly selective, residential, liberal arts college. Situated on a rolling 515-acre campus in central New York State, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø attracts motivated students with diverse backgrounds, interests and talents from all over the United States.