‘I was never taught Welsh history’: Michael Sheen on reclaiming rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr

Michael Sheen at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. One of the actor’s main reasons for staging Owain & Henry is because Glyndŵr’s story has never been told on an epic scale. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/Athena Pictures

There are myriad films, plays and books focusing on heroes of English, Scottish and Irish history but far fewer that tell the stories of the great figures of Wales.

A major new play about the Welsh nobleman Owain Glyndŵr’s early 15th-century rebellion against the English crown will help redress the balance this autumn.