A new play by Tom Wentworth will take to the stage at Theatr Brycheiniog this month.

Little Bits of Ruined Beauty will come to Brecon on October 4 and 5. The play explores themes of guilt, masculinity, but most of all, love.

When Eddie returns to Shropshire, he falls back into his fractious relationship with his father, both skirting around things long left unsaid. Gradually their relationship changes, but will they break through and find the new beginning they both need?

Little Bits of Ruined Beauty is a darkly comic play examining the subtle shift from cared-for to carer and how dignity and independence are maintained in isolated rural areas.

Produced by Pentabus, the play is commissioned and supported by Unlimited, celebrating the work of disabled artists, with funding from Arts Council England.

Tom Wentworth is an extraordinary playwright, broadcaster, and journalist. His past recent work includes Burke and Hare, which played London’s Jermyn Street Theatre in December 2018 following a successful run at The Watermill Theatre, Newbury, and a rural tour. With the new company, Unsolicited Theatre (founded with playwright Kelly Jones), he presented a work-in-progress reading of his new monologue Bully, supported by and MGCFutures bursary. His current commissions include Little Bits of Ruined Beauty and Heart of Hearts. He is also developing ideas for television and radio and has recently been part of the Bush’s Emerging Writers’ Group and BBC Writers room’s London Voices.

Tom is an experienced broadcaster who regularly contributes to radio and TV programmes and is available as both presenter and guest. As a journalist he has written many theatre reviews and for several years he wrote a well-received column, The Undergraduate, for Able Magazine about life as a disabled student.

He studied a Radio (BA HONS) at University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales) and previously worked as a script editor for the BBC. He is an experienced workshop leader and advises regularly on disabled access in the arts.

Pentabus is the nation’s rural theatre company. They are the only professional theatre company in the UK whose vision is singularly rural. They tour new plays about the contemporary rural world to new audiences in village halls, festivals, and theatres, telling stories with local relevance, plus national and international impact.

Pentabus believe that every person living in an isolated rural community has the right to exceptional theatre.

Over four and a half decades they have produced 175 new plays and reached over half a million audience members.

Unlimited is an arts commissioning body that supports, funds, and promotes new work by disabled artists for UK and international audiences.

Their mission is to commission extraordinary work from disabled artists that will change and challenge the world. Funded by Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Arts Council Wales, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and British Council, since 2013, Unlimited has supported over 460 artists with over £4.9 million reaching audiences of over 5 million making it the largest supporter of disabled artists worldwide.