The production is currently playing at Emma Rice Company’s home venue The Lucky Chance in Frome, where it runs until the 21st December 2025.
It has been announced that Emma Rice’s production of Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales will be filmed and released digitally this Christmas.
As well as being adapted and directed by Emma Rice, the production features music by Ian Ross.
Meanwhile the cast includes: Tom Fox, Simon Oskarsson, Katy Owen, Ian Ross and Robyn Sinclair.
The filmed production will be released for digital rental and purchase on Monday 22 December via Vimeo, and is available through the Emma Rice Company website: www.emmaricecompany.co.uk. Rental will be priced at £6.99, with purchase available at £9.99.
When did Christmas become so hectic? Have you ever craved a break from the bright colours, bustling shops and music so loud you fear your ears will ring for days?
A Child’s Christmas in Wales is the perfect antidote to festive madness, taking young and old to a magical place of wit, warmth and wonder. In this new stage adaptation, Dylan Thomas’ beloved poem is woven into a beautiful hour of heart-melting music, puppetry, candles, shadows and rare imagination.
Emma Rice said: ““There was a copy of A Child’s Christmas in Wales on my parent’s bookshelf growing up. I would thumb through the thick, cream pages of rolling words – but could never find much in it for me, or anyone for that matter. Returning to this beautiful piece in later life I realise that it has everything and is for everyone. It has a child’s eye that shines on a world filled with adventure, friendship and freedom and an adult eye that blinks on a world of loss, fear and love. Working on it has been a moving and joyful fever dream. We have laughed and cried in equal measure as we breathed gentle life into Thomas’ characters. Filled with soulful music and visual poetry, we have delighted in matching Thomas’ words with our own dreams and experiences.”
The creative team behind the production also includes: Set and Costume Design by Emma Rice, with Simon Baker, Liz Evans, Jamie Misselbrook and Hannah Sharp; Lighting Designer: Malcolm Rippeth; Projection Designer: Simon Baker.
To find out more visit: https://www.emmaricecompany.co.uk/