Close your eyes and listen to the Jungle Theater’s reprise of Dylan Thomas’s dreamlike Under Milk Wood, which it’s staging for a fifth time to stretch through this year’s holiday season. While there’s little to see in this radio play, there’s plenty to hear—a beautiful, lyrical ramble of poetry, all spoken during a day in the life of the average, unhappy folks living in a Welsh fishing village. Artistic director Bain Boehlke reappears onstage alongside Claudia Wilkens, an adroit local performer who thrives in text-heavy productions (largely on the Jungle stage). Together, they weave a cozy, lyrical collage of language out of Thomas’s script, offering listeners a meditation on what it is to be content together in hopeless misery. 2951 Lyndale Ave. S.; 612-822-7063; www.jungletheater.com
Under Milk Wood
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