Dylan Thomas'
A Child's Christmas in Wales
a new adaptation by Burgess Clark

November 27 - December 23

“One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner…”

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Boston Children’s Theatre present a new adaptation of the Dylan Thomas story A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Playwright and director Burgess Clark has transformed this classic story into what will hopefully become an annual Boston holiday tradition—complete with presents, odd relatives and freshly fallen snow.

It is Christmas 1923 in Swansea, Wales. Will the fire in Mrs. Prothero’s kitchen finally burn the house down? Will a hole have to be cut into the roof for the Christmas pine? And who sent young Dylan that mysterious package? Originally commissioned and performed by the National Theatre of the Deaf, Clark’s new adaptation stays true to the best of Thomas’s vision, all the while leading us to new wonderments.

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