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Christine Kempell as Caitlin MacNamara, wife of Dylan Thomas. Submitted photo.

CAITLIN - a one woman play about Dylan Thomas’s wife. Dylan Thomas was a poet. You will have heard of him.  But what do you know about his wife? 

Before Dylan Thomas died in New York at the tender age of 39, he and his wife Caitlin MacNamara boozed, binged and brawled their way through the bars of Britain in the 1930’s and 40’s.  Caitlin and Dylan were great lovers, bohemians, mixing with other writers, artists and musicians of their day, spending all their time in pubs doing scandalous things. 

Although Dylan has his tragic genius as an excuse for his awful behaviour, Caitlin feels history judges her more harshly as a mother, married to the “Voice of God” but she doesn’t want your forgiveness. 

She puts her own career as a dancer on hold to support Dylan and sacrifices everything for the man she loves. However, their marriage was stormy, passionate and explosive, poverty stricken and riddled with infidelities on both sides. 

Here she tells the true story, in her own brutally honest words, of her tempestuous life with Dylan, revealing some shocking insights into their mutually destructive behaviour and she does not hold back.

Caitlin MacNamara? If you’ve heard of her it’s because she married him.  Now learn about the forgotten woman behind the famous man.