THIS is a sparkling new play, written by Sian Owen, about the contemporary and contentious issue of fracking.

How far down do you own the land beneath your home? What would you do when someone else comes along – a wealthy fracking company – and stakes their claim under your land?

For young couple Joseph and Beatrice and their new baby Dylan, this is a powerful and moving story about fracture – fractured land resulting in fractured hearts, dreams and ultimately lives.

Featuring a simple yet ingeniously creative set of stage blocks, the story of this couple’s home moves through time, from pre-historic 800BC and the Roman Occupation of 193AD, through the Great Plague of 1348 and the Second World War in 1941, to the current fracking controversy of 2016.

The play concludes in 2216, with future archaeologists discovering evidence of our wasteful throwaway “Screen Age”.

Two brilliant actors, Harry Long and Rosie Armstrong, beautifully directed by Jo Newman, play 17 different yet compellingly convincing characters.

Sound and lighting effects are shudderingly, shatteringly effective, particularly during the deafening and blinding fracking scenes.

Sian Owen’s imaginative storytelling contains many subtle connections, from the gruesome corpses interred during the Great Plague, through the wedding ring gently buried by the Second World War widowed Land Girl, to baby Dylan’s dinosaur sticker on his Dad’s lost mobile phone.

This powerful and thought-provoking new play runs until April 30, matinees Thursdays and Saturdays.

Brendan McCusker