Written by Danielle Burn
​Directed by Anna Ryder
​Produced by Mortal Fools

What if… ​I’m doing a test and trying my best,
but the words are meaningless data,
they jump about on the paper,
some backwards, some not,
and I’m losing the plot,
and I’m gonna look silly,
like that boy with a willy picture,
stuck on his top when he went to the shop after school...

Do you have worrits? You know - that uncontrollable churning in the pit of your tummy like you have 341 worms squirming about? Melva Mapletree has them too, and right now they won’t let her leave the house. But then, one night, something happens which changes her world forever.

Melva is for children aged 7-11, their teachers and families. It's a boisterous, mischievous and funny story of one girl’s
adventure to find out what she’s really capable of.

Over Christmas 2017, we temporarily converted an empty high-street shop on Prudhoe’s Front Street to create a pop-up theatre venue. This was where MELVA began.

From December 2017 - January 2018, we had a run of sold-out performances in our make-shift theatre. As always, we kept ticket prices SUPER low (just £2 for local residents) which meant we reached a tonne of different people.

**775 audience members - 98% capacity**
**Sold out 15 of 19 public performances**
**Audience age range from 2 - 80 years old**
**50/50 audience split between local residents and the wider region**

About Front Street Theatre...

Since we didn't have our own Mortal Fools theatre venue, we had to get creative in order to bring Melva to public audiences. ​As a company based in Prudhoe - a town in West Northumberland with very limited theatre provision - we were really keen to keep the production as central and accessible to the town as possible. 

So, with A LOT of elbow grease and sheer determination, we converted an empty shop unit on the high street into 'Front Street Theatre' - our very own pop-up theatre space.