Company of Sirens: Water Wars

Company Of Sirens Presents Water Wars 

By Ian Rowlands | Directed by Chris Durnall | Original Score by John Meirion Rea
Cast includes Siwan Morris, Owen Arwyn & Jâms Thomas

WHO OWNS THE RAIN?

“WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT WE WOULD WILLINGLY THIRST TO DEATH, SO THAT YOU CAN WATER THE GREEN LAWNS OF SURBITON?”

The forced damming of the Tryweryn river by the English city of Liverpool in the 1960s reawakened the desire for self-determination within the Welsh. Forty years on, it arguably led directly to devolution.

In Water Wars, England invades Wales in order to appropriate its resources and in order to sustain its own ecology. Water Wars is an eco thriller with great relevance for the communities of Wales both now and in the past.

Ian Rowlands is an internationally known playwright from Carmarthen. His plays include Marriage of Convenience, Troyanne, Love in Plastic, Blue Heron in the Womb, The Sin Eaters, Glissando on an Empty Harp and Aurora Borealis.

The production is fully bi-lingual and will use the Sibrwd translation app – Post show talk after the performance.