The Story by Tess Berry-Heart

Hela by Mari Izzard

One ticket, two productions! Part of The Other Room’s Violence Series.

The Story, which marks writer Tess Berry-Hart’s debut in Wales, is a disquieting exploration of moral condemnation and personal responsibility that keeps the audience guessing to the very end.

Inspired by Tess’s work with refugees from Assad’s jails and Libyan prisons, it follows the story of a volunteer arriving back from working in a refugee camp to discover that she has become an “enemy of the people.” The Story interrogates the language of ‘othering’ and the stories we tell ourselves to justify violence.

The Story will be followed by Hela, an unsettling tale of dark family secrets and vigilant justice penned by Violet Burns Playwright Award winner Mari Izzard and woven in the medium of Welsh and English, under the direction of The Other Room’s Artistic Director Dan Jones.

Set in a dystopian Wales, where justice is determined – like everything else – by an algorithm, Hela asks pertinent questions about whether our obsession with data can ever truly be trusted, and how far we are willing to go to see justice happen.

Recommended Age: 16+

Ticket price for The Story & Hela : £18 / £15 concession.

Or, if you intend to see the whole series (American Nightmare, The Story + Hela) Special price ticket: £25 / £8 Concession.

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Cast

The Story

X – Siwan Morris

V – Hannah McPake

The Storyteller – Luciana Trapman

Hela

Erin – Lowri Izzard

Hugh – Gwydion Rhys

Y System – Rhian Blythe