For some time now, the impression has been created that theatre must return to its agitative forms. For Kathrin Röggla, “writing the water” was an ideal commission of the Theatre of the Anthropocene in the age of ecological polycrises. Her initial question was the one about ecological action: Why do we act or actually don’t, who acts. The location of Röggla’s enquiry was Saxony, and the main problem there is not only water. As simple as the matter seems, it is entangled in a mythological and political context that places the question of generations at the centre. Does water as a connecting medium have to be understood today in the ecological context more as one of social, political and biological separation?