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The Water Is Fourteen Degrees
Llyn Cae Duyn is a flooded slate quarry above Cwmorthin in the mountains, worked from 1841 to 1889 and holding thirty-four metres of green water at the drowned adit.
- ~219 min (estimated)
- 48196 words
- 71 scenes
- 11 branch points
- 5 endings
36 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
It is fed by one spring at the head and nothing else. In August the air at Cwmorthin is twenty-nine degrees and the lake is fourteen, and it has not been warmer than fourteen point four in living memory, because the spring arrives in April at a temperature the mountain does not negotiate with. Cerys Vaughan, 34, is a marine welder at Y Porth in Tremadog and Rhys Hollings, 31, is a respiratory physiologist who cannot stop climbing hills about his own breathing. They have rented Tŷ'r Cerrig, a quarryman's cottage on the north shore, for four weeks. On Sunday 6 July they agreed out loud, once, in that kitchen, that they are going in off the north slip on the last Sunday of August at nine o'clock and neither of them is coming up. The words have not been revised since. They are restated on the first page and after that neither of them says them again. On Saturday 2 August they tried it once.
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- Suicide, an agreed pact, and a drowning
- Death of a lead character, repeated across five endings
- Cold-water immersion and cold-shock physiology
- Deliberate breath-holding
- Antidepressant medication and a whole dose taken
- Explicit sexual content between consenting adults
- Body recovery from water
- An inquest
- A family member misled by a true statement
- Sibling estrangement on a bereavement route
- No minor in any role
Cast
- C Cerys Vaughan Marine welder at Y Porth and viewpoint character; the one who wrote the list at four in the morning on 4 June no portrait yet
- R Rhys Hollings Respiratory physiologist at Bangor; the one who asked to go first, out loud, on 6 July no portrait yet
- I Ines Pryce Cerys's sister, school kitchen at Ysgol Penglais in Wrexham; the person who is not told anything true for four weeks no portrait yet
- B Bryn Hendra Keeps the boathouse and the launch register; eleven years, and does not read it no portrait yet
- D Dr Anwen Rowlands General practitioner at Nefyn, twenty-two years in the practice; delivers cold shock as fact and does not know what she is part of no portrait yet