Irish Repertory Theatre presents a musical celebration of Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales, adapted and directed by Charlotte Moore.
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5 images Experience a joyous musical celebration of Dylan Thomas’s iconic story, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, the “never to be forgotten day at the end of the unremembered year,” when songs are sung, cakes and sweets are abundant, and the frozen city parks are laden with mysteries and adventures for wild boys and girls to explore. This favorite Irish Rep tradition features both classic and contemporary Christmas music interwoven with Thomas’s story of a snowy Christmas Day in Wales.
I grew up on Dylan Thomas - his poetry, his troubled life, the music of his lilting voice on an old recording of Under Milkwood. In much of his work, Thomas focused his gaze back in time to an idealized childhood, when life was less complicated. In A Child's Christmas in Wales, his paean to that “never to be forgotten day at the end of the unremembered year," Thomas weaves evocative text into... Read more
