WHAT does a girl do when, at just 15, she is forced to give up her baby for adoption?

Follow the tragi-comic Shurl in her search for connection in an ever-shifting landscape.

The Friends of Brecon and District Mind have invited playwright and actor Sue Bevan to perform her one-woman show, An Audience with Shurl, at the Muse, Glamorgan Street, Brecon, on Tuesday, March 6 at 7pm.

Lasting over an hour, there will be an opportunity for questions afterwards.

Shurl escapes the poverty of the Welsh valleys to follow the woman she believes can save her, Dame Shirley Bassey. It draws on Sue Bevan’s own experience of losing her child to adoption as a teenager raised in a poor, tight-knit Welsh valleys community.

The universality of connection, loss and search for meaning has moved audiences in the United States, Sweden and South Africa. It received an outstanding-performance award at Prague Fringe. Sue Bevan won the Drama Association of Wales International One-Act Play Competition.

The Friends support the work of Brecon and District Mind and raise awareness of mental health issues in and around Brecon, Crickhowell, Talgarth and Hay-on-Wye.

Tickets for An Audience with Shurl are £7 (Friends £4) from: The Hours, Ship Street; Brecon and District Mind, Ty Croeso, Free Street, Brecon; or, if still unsold, at the door.