Category: Dylan Thomas

Theater Review: ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’: Dylan Thomas’s Nostalgic Return to Childhood

NEW YORK—When one enters the mainstage theater of New York’s Irish Repertory Theatre, one is pleasantly startled by the presence of numerous silvery-white Christmas trees adorning the stage. Six simple hard-back chairs have been lined up downstage. Pianist David Hancock Turner is playing soft, possibly Christmas music. The six actors enter and take their seats….


On Love of Life and Love of Health

In the year of my birth, 75 per cent of men smoked, as did 50 per cent of women. In films, you could tell a true gentleman by the assiduity and grace with which he withdrew his cigarette lighter from his pocket and lit the cigarette of the woman to whom he was talking or…