Between the waves of radio frequencies and the abyssal signals of whales, a form of revenge against the culture of death unfolds— a poetic manifesto that begins from Under Milk Wood, a vocal work celebrating life, innocence, plurality, and the childhood of the world in the seaside village invented for radio by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, which the rock radio DJ and “beautiful loser” Renato Striglia wanted to realize but never did.
The fifteen unreleased songs written by Vinicio Capossela, along with the characters, voices, and obsessions, populate the solitude of a man lying in an empty bathtub, who is at once Renato, Captain Cat, and Dylan Thomas himself—“Noah of the bay in his patched-up ark.”
The show is a radio musical immersed in darkness, where the voices reaching us from the milk of the wood are the voices of our shared humanity. It is a sanctuary of innocence besieged by the world of law, power, and order—an uprising against docility that celebrates the subversive force of being oneself, despite everything… even death.
