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Children of the West

by Dipo Baruwa-Etti

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.

What does it mean to have a significant part of your life forced upon you?

A dystopian drama that explores love, parenthood, and free will.

Part of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama’s annual NEW Festival.

Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, in association with Paines Plough.

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.

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Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

Cardiff

30 May – 3 Jun 2025

Young Vic

London

11 – 21 Jun 2025

Creative Team

Director

Zoë Templeman-Young

Writer

Dipo Baruwa-Etti