Review: A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES, Vimeo – Broadway World

🎭 NEW! UK Theatre Newsletter Get all the top news & discounts for UK & beyond. There’s magic in every moment of the new digital release of Emma Rice’s remarkable stage adaptation of A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Filmed live at the Emma Rice Company’s home venue The Lucky Chance – a converted chapel in Somerset that seats 80 – adapter/director Rice captures the heart of Dylan Thomas’s famous Christmas poem, with its rolling rhythm and evocative imagery that will appeal to all ages. Don’t expect grand West End special effects, as the joy of Rice’s sell-out show is its simplicity. There’s a small cast of four, with a diminutive Katy Owen as swaggering Thomas, delivering his wondrous words in true Richard Burton-esque fashion. Katy Owen in A Child’s Christmas in Wales Photo credit: Steve Tanner Owen and her fellow performers ­– excellent Tom Fox, Robyn Sinclair and Simon Oskarsson ­– multi-skill like mad as various Welsh villagers, including Mrs Prothero and her son Jim (a charming Fox) the local postman and Aunty Dosie. Sinclair’s Aunty Hannah sings a beautiful song about bleeding hearts and death, while Oskarsson is superb on the trumpet. This is pure physical theatre, with slapstick
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