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Swansea Jazzland 'A Christmas Story'

Swansea Grand TheatreSwansea

11 December 2026 · 20:00

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Dave Cottle Quintet, Narrators Sian Lloyd & Griff HarriesRichard Burton’s ‘A Christmas Story’ &Dylan Thomas’s ‘A Childs Christmas in Wales’ 2 new Jazz Suites composed by Dave Cottle with narrators Sian Lloyd & Griff Harries with the Dave Cottle Quintet. Intermission between the two pieces! On Christmas Eve, eight-year-old Richard is living with his older sister in Port Talbot and is taken out of the house by his Uncle ‘Mad Dan’ to go and sing with the miners round the bonfire, because his sister is upstairs gravely ill …or is she? Perhaps young Richard will be getting a festive surprise this Christmas. Written by Burton and inspired by his hero Dylan Thomas’s ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’, which will be performed in the second part of the show, the tale transports the audience back to Burton’s memories of childhood Christmases in Port Talbot. A Child's Christmas in Wales is a piece of p