Stage Plays

Seeds

It's Michael Thomas's birthday. A cake sits in his mother Evelyn's living room, its candles burning undisturbed.

On the fifteenth anniversary of Michael's fatal stabbing, Jackie wants to clear her conscience, whilst Evelyn's got a big speech to deliver. Are some things better left unsaid?

Mel Pennant's play seeds explores the human story behind a tragedy, through the eyes of those left behind: two mothers united in sorrow, and sharing the hardship of protecting their sons – one in life, and one in death.

seeds was shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award, and first produced on a UK tour in 2020 by tiata fahodzi, Wrested Veil in association with Leeds Playhouse, Soho Theatre and Tara Finney Production and directed by Anastasia Osei-Kuffour before Covid lockdown halted its run .

‘What would you do to save your son? Everything? Anything? Lie?’

  • "Seeds pushes at the limits of maternal love, asking how far a mother would go to protect her son"

    – Guardian

  • “Mel Pennant’s writing is urgent with a gravitational pull towards hard truths both personal and societal…”

    – Always Time for Theatre 

  • “With the powerful impact being personally experienced Seeds is a play very well written, very well performed and very well directed.”

    – FairyPowered Productions

No Rhyme

It's New Year's Eve. When tragedy strikes who will walk away?

Nushka's planning revenge, Pepper's plans backfire and Jayde is nowhere to be seen. Katya hates her job, Lizzie can't leave hers and a young girl hovers between life and death.

Enter a world where a disrespect can mean more than a life, where being different makes you the target.

In 2013, No Rhyme won the Brockley Jack Write Now 4 theatre award and was staged for a two week run at the Jack Studio Theatre.

  • “The show is compelling simply for the double virtue of it being excellently written and well cast”

    – A Younger Theatre

  • “Pennant has a natural flair for dialogue”

    – London Theatre