’Starless and bible-black’ Michael Sheen performs iconic Under Milk Wood speech | Now streaming

’Begin at the beginning.’ Michael Sheen (Good Omens), Karl Johnson (Harry Potter) and Siân Phillips (Keeping Faith) feature in the acting company breathing new life into Dylan Thomas’ poetic masterpiece Under Milk Wood. Now streaming worldwide: A community is sleeping. If you listen closely, you can hear their dreams. As they awake to boiled eggs and the postman, the residents of a small Welsh village juggle old secrets and new realities. Lyndsey Turner directs this National Theatre production. -- Subscribe on YouTube: Sign up to our monthly newsletter: National Theatre TikTok: @nationaltheatre National Theatre Twitter: National Theatre Facebook: National Theatre Instagram: National Theatre Live Twitter: National Theatre Live Facebook: -- At the National Theatre in London, we make world-class theatre that is entertaining, challenging and inspiring. And we make it for everyone. National Theatre Live broadcast the best of British theatre to cinemas in the UK and around the world.