The first reading of To Kill A Machine author Catrin Fflûr Huws’ new play will take place this week at Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

Set in a rural cemetery, The Enfant Terrible is a play about a mother, Maia, who is grieving for her son. His absent father, John, is unaffected by the boy’s death.

This is a play therefore about Maia’s endeavours to make John realise what she - and he has lost, and to share her grief. But John is important and Maia is not.

Maia must find a way of making John listen, and to understand the child’s love that he could have known. Does the sexton hold the key to effective communication between mother and father?

Catrin Fflûr Huws had great success with To Kill A Machine, directed by Wales Director of the Year Angharad Lee, about cryptanalyst Alan Turing.

It was first performed at Aberystwyth Arts Centre in 2012 as part of the Sherman Theatre’s Spread the Word project.

Since then it has toured Wales in 2015, followed by a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and a season at the Kings’ Head Theatre in London.

It was nominated for four Wales Theatre Awards and was a finalist at the Arch and Bruce Birch Awards.

The Enfant Terrible is on this Wednesday, 3 April, at 7.45pm.

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