Adventures in the Skin Trade: An Anti-Faustian Tale of Seven Deadly Skins (Plays for Young People) - Softcover

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Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea in 1914. After leaving school he worked briefly as a junior reporter on the South Wales Evening Post before deciding to embark on a freelance literary career. He rapidly established himself as a remarkable personality and one of the finest poets of his generation. 18 Poems appeared in 1934, Twenty-five Poems in 1936, Deaths and Entrances in 1946 and In Country Sleep in 1952. His Collected Poems was published in 1952. Throughout his life, Thomas also wrote short stories, his most famous collection being Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He also wrote film scripts, was a celebrated broadcaster of radio features and talks, lectured widely in America, and wrote the radio play Under Milk Wood, first broadcast posthumously in 1954.

Lucy Gough has written extensively for radio and stage and was a scriptwriter for ten years from 1996 for Hollyoaks. Her work includes Catherine Wheel (1991, toured by Scallywag Theatre in Education Company); Our Lady Of Shadows (1994, BBC Radio 3); As To Be Naked (Is the best disguise) (1994, Theatr Clwyd Theatre in Education), shortlisted BBC Wales Writer of the Year Award 1994 and John Whiting Award 1994; Haul (1994); Head (1996, by BBC Radio 4); Wolfskin (1997); Prophetess of Exeter (1997, BBC World Service); The Red Room (1999, BBC Radio 4); The Mermaid's Tail (1999, BBC Radio 4); Judith Beheading Holofernes (2000, BBC Radio 4); Mapping The Soul (2001, Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Gryfhead (2003, Aberystwyth Arts Centre), Wuthering Heights (2003, BBC Radio 4); Mapping The Soul 2 (2005, BBC Radio 4) The White Hare (2008, as part of BBC4 Extra's Man in Black series), also adapted as a short film (2010). A stage version of Wuthering Heights was commissioned and toured from Aberystwyth Arts Centre in 2011 while her radio drama Western Stars was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2011, and BBC Wales in 2012. In 2010 she undertook a 3 month Granada Artists' Award in California and was awarded a Creative Wales Award from the Welsh Arts Council. She currently writes for the BBC drama series Doctors and is a creative research fellow at University of Wales Aberystwyth.