Where the flowers kneel

A Rehearsed Reading

Christmas Eve. A small living room in Newport, Wales.

Two sisters — Catrin; a volatile recovering addict; and Beth, a tightly-wound Welsh Londoner with a secret pregnancy — reunite for what should be a wholesome holiday.

As the night unfolds, their bond is tested by buried resentments, addiction, and the looming presence of Catrin’s overdose just weeks before. When Beth’s English, white-collared fiancé Zac arrives unannounced, tensions ignite; questions of emotional manipulation, co-dependence, and control emerge.

This darkly funny play builds to a raw, volatile confrontation, and Beth must decide not just whether to leave but what, and who, she’s leaving behind. In a final act of radical sisterhood, Beth makes an unexpected decision to the one person she can’t quite live with, or without.

An emotionally charged drama exploring Welsh identity, the delicate violence of sisterhood, and how love and harm often speak the same language.

Ela Moss is an emerging playwright with professional and academic recognition; including a sell-out run of Love Conditions at Old Red Lion Theatre transferring to Leicester Curve as part of NSDF, and a Verity Bargate Award shortlisting. Winner of the Methuen Prize for Best Text for Performance Dissertation supervised by David Eldridge. Achieved the award for highest cohort grade during BA in Creative Writing. She writes intimate, spiky, character-led stories with a socio-political edge and WTFK is the sister play to Love Conditions.