The Christmas Tree and A Child's Christmas in Wales

Get into the spirit of Christmas with 

two great pieces of theatre on the same stage

The Christmas Tree by Norm Foster   

The kind of light-hearted comedy that puts the merry in Merry Christmas

Late one Christmas Eve a man and a woman both claim the last, lonely tree on the tree lot.  Who should get it?  Each gives reasons, through ever expanding tales of woe, as to why they should take the tree home. Each is unmoved by the other’s predicament. A story filled with laughs, heartache, and, in the end true Christmas spirit. Two people in the cast...fun enough for twenty !

Director’s Notes:

Director Jeremy Dutton read this one act play several years ago. It tickled his fancy and now he has the pleasure of mounting it twice in the same year !  It will be the Studio Theatre's entry in November at the EODL One Act play festival and then it will be re-done as half of this year's Christmas show...along with  A Child's Christmas in Wales. Thomas and Foster...together at last ! Christmas Tree is a tight well written, fast paced comedy. Fun for the two actors and great fun for the audience.

Director’s Bio:

Director Jeremy Dutton has spent the past 44 years involved in just about every aspect of amateur theatre.  A Child's

Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

The timeless Welsh Christmas masterpiece

Dylan Thomas’s wonderful short story in which he reminisces about his Christmases as a child on Cwmdonkin Drive in Swansea, with its beautifully poetic language, will be presented as a staged reading. As the Narrator tells the story, we see Young Dylan together with some of his childhood friends and his various Aunts and Uncles as they re-live events on a Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in the early 1920s. Stories such as Mrs Prothero and the firemen, Singing Carols outside a “haunted house” and Christmas dinner with Dylan’s cigar-smoking uncles and brandy-nipping aunts will surely bring a smile to your faces.  The original story will be supplemented with appropriate music which we anticipate being brought to you by several local singers.

Director’s Notes:

As a child of a Welsh father, I grew up surrounded by welsh uncles, aunts and cousins all of whom lived within an area of about half a mile square. Christmas Eve always involved a family trek from one house to the next with singing with violin or piano accompaniment and, of course, “The Presents” all wrapped so we would not know what was inside (or so they thought!!!). However, it was not until my teen years that I first heard “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” on the radio. Since that time it flashes back into my memory almost every Christmas and I still have an old, somewhat fuzzy-sounding cassette tape which I bring out from time to time. I hope those of you who, like me, have some fondness for this story will enjoy our treatment of it.

Director’s Bio:

Since moving to Perth 6 years ago, David has appeared on the Studio Theatre stage in Bedroom Farce and The Title with Barn Door Theatre, On Golden Pond with New Theatre Perth and Talking Heads, Would You Like a Cup of Tea? and You Say Tomatoes with Studio Theatre Productions. He has also directed The Importance of Being Earnest, The Mousetrap and I’ll Be Back Before Midnight for Studio Theatre Productions. David is the current Artistic Director of Studio Theatre Productions.