A
Child's Christmas in Wales
by
Dylan Thomas
Directed by Robert Duke
Adapted by Jeremy Brooks and Adrian Mitchell
Notes
on Thomas
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| Andy Paterson as Dylan Thomas in A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES. Photo © Warren Westura. |
"To be born Welsh is to be born singing"
From The Return Journey
Schoolmaster:
Oh yes, I remember him well, the boy you are searching for:
he looked like most boys, no better, brighter or more respectful;
he cribbed, mitched, spilt ink, rattled his desk and
garbled his lessons with the worst of them;
he could smudge, hedge, smirk, wriggle, wince,
wimper, blarney, badger, blush, deceive, be
devious, stammer, improvise, assume
offended dignity or righteous indignation as though to the
manner born...
appeared regularly in detention classes,
hid in the cloakroom during algebra,
was, when a newcomer, thrown into the bushes of the
Lower Playground by bigger boys,
and threw newcomers into the bushes of the Lower
Playground when he was a bigger boy;
he scuffled at prayers,
he interpolated, smugly, the time-honoured wrong
irreverent words into the morning hymns,
he helped to damage the headmaster's rhubarb,
was thirty-third in trigonometry,
and, as might be expected,
edited the School Magazine.
From The Life of Dylan Thomas
by Constantine Fitzgibbon
"For Swansea is built like Rome on seven hills between
which the River Tawe winds towards Swansea Bay... And then,
on the other side of the bay...lies the Gower Peninsula, one
of the most gorgeous stretches of cliff and heath, one of
the most romantic and wild sceneries in the whole of Britain.
From the top of the cliffs the waves seem to whisper as they
break in the sandy coves or reverberate within the caves far
below..."
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