This production is currently being developed for schools touring in partnership with our friends at Children North East.
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About the play
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, on Christmas Eve, 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. |
After a hugely successful run of sold-out public performances over Christmas 2017 in our temporary theatre space, Front Street Theatre, and incredible feedback from our audiences, we decided to develop the play as part of a touring package for schools and theatres.
Our aim is to use the production as a creative tool to support children (and the adults who support them) to understand more about worries and anxieties and learn tools for self-care. This supports the mandate set out in the 2017 Green Paper Transforming Children and Young People's Mental Health Provision. We are working with Children North East and Public Health Northumberland.
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We are now accepting registers of interest from schools.
Details of how to register your interest with us are in the document on the right. |
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We think 'Melva' is something really special,
but don't just take our word for it....
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About Front Street Theatre...
Since we don't have our own Mortal Fools theatre venue (yet...) 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.
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.
