Clwyd Theatr Cymru

Rape of the Fair Country, a gripping story, told by an all-Welsh cast, is packed with music, wry humour and fervent intensity. In a series of violent and thrilling clashes it shows the full force of the struggles between the ironmasters and those who slaved for them.

It is 1826 in the valleys of South Wales. The Mortymers are a Welsh family caught in the bitter crossfire between their English employers and the early trade union movement. Morfydd opposes the changes transforming their beautiful valley, but her easy-going brother Iestyn and his best friend Mo Jenkins are more concerned with winning punch-ups... and women!

Moments of great poignancy abound as we are swept from the fiery hell of the furnaces to the icy stillness of a Welsh mountainside and on to bloody scenes of rebellion.