Mouthful

Trafalgar Studios

11 September

Organica

by Pedro Miguel Rozo

translated by Simon Scardifeld

She put her savings

into earth, and now she fears

what is buried there.

Chocolate

by Bola Agbaje

The cocoa farmer

who does not know what they make

those bitter beans into.

 

Bread on the Table

by Lydia Adetunji

He bought a loaf, too small

to feed them all, but all 

he could afford.

 

Photo: ©Richard Davenport 2015

The Protectors

by Clare Bayley

These are potatoes

growing wild, all but forgotten,

fabled, forbidden.

Try Me

by Poppy Burton-Morgan

and Dominic Gerrard

He would scuttle

if he could

across your tongue,

the smooth-talking

cricket.

Photo: ©Richard Davenport 2015

16 Pounds

by Neil LaBute

Water welling, spilling,

sliding down her gullet,

icy in her gaze.

Turned

by Inua Ellams

A woman, once a wife 
and mother, now alone;
stoical by her stove.

Mouthful, by Metta Theatre, is a collection 

of six short plays and a musical, responding 

to the global food crisis.

Mouthful runs at Trafalgar Studios until 3 October