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Drama
NEW '25: Children of the West by Dipo Baruwa Etti
Overview
Fri 30 May & Mon 2 Jun 7.15pm | Sat 31 May & Tue 3 Jun 2.15pm
Details
Running time: approx. 70mins
Venue
Pricing
£7.50 - £15
Age
14+
Tickets: £7.50 - £15
Venue: Bute Theatre
About
Borders are shut. The country is underpopulated. Citizens are required to have children.
Nia, a prominent journalist, has always sat on the fence about these regulations despite it impacting her and her husband’s lives. As she seeks to escape from the country and tell the story of what’s happening in a now isolated nation, she is forced to interrogate the cost of what she’s leaving behind. As she goes on this journey, so do others – from government officials to smugglers to couples dealing with infertility – evaluating their lives in relation to these measures. What does it mean to have a significant part of your life forced upon you? Is it the right way to rebuild a country? Should they comply or rebel?
Children of the West is a grounded dystopian drama that explores love, parenthood, and free will.
Writer Dipo Baruwa Etti
Director Zoe Templeman Young
In collaboration with Paines Plough
Richard Burton Company
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama’s inhouse theatre company, the Richard Burton Company, is made up of actors, stage managers, theatre designers and musical theatre performers in their final year of training at the College. As one of Wales’ most prolific repertory companies, it reimagines classics through a modern lens, and presents contemporary drama, new writing and musical theatre that reflects society today. Staging numerous productions to both Cardiff and London audiences, it empowers its students as creatives, working with some of the UK's best theatre makers and industry leaders with a professional focus.
