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"Incredible piece of theatre for young people - magical, but also an important message for everyone. Let's fight those worrits together!”

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"Loved it! Really useful for my son with worrits. Lots to discuss after the show - thanks!

- audience members, Christmas 2017

Thanks to strategic level funding from Arts Council England, this production has now been developed into a touring theatre package for schools, in partnership with our friends at Children North East:
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Printed lesson plans and online project resources for KS2 classroom use
One full day in school with Mortal Fools, including an 80min theatre performance and 4 x 40min support workshops
One day practical wellbeing and resilience CPD training workshop for mental health leads / SENDcos with Mortal Fools
Melva Spring 2020 - School Information Pack
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    Please note: We require a large performance space (7m x 5m not including space for the audience), and access to this space the afternoon before our visit.

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, 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.

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.

The production is 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.

We think 'Melva' is something really special,
​but don't just take our word for it....

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.

Have you seen one of our productions and want to tell us what you thought?
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