NEW YORK—You may never have personally experienced the moments recalled in “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” but after seeing the Irish Repertory Theatre’s latest incarnation of what has become a perennial holiday treat, you just might feel that you have.
Based on the story by Dylan Thomas, and winningly adapted and directed by Charlotte Moore, the show is awash with memories as it takes the audience on a “thimble-hiding, musical chairing, blind-man’s bluffing” version of a “never to be forgotten day.” It’s a time when the world outside was a snow-swept blanket of magic, where “saber-clawed arctic tigers” roamed at will, where snowballs were a child’s weapon of choice, and where nothing could keep a young boy and his friends from their adventures—except perhaps, the call to Christmas dinner.
