Penny Productions is about spoken word collaboration, experimentation and celebration.
Penny is a 100% fun vessel to generate a buzz around the Isle of Man's vibrant spoken word scene. We use it to showcase our own work and to celebrate other creatives whose work we adore. We also use Penny to explore high quality collaborative and solo ventures that entertain, challenge, theatricalise, and push spoken word boundaries. Penny Productions is not a public service, though we do occasionally run open mics and other interactive events.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Many thanks to the Isle of Man Arts Council for sponsoring the film adaptation of Jackie Morrey-Grace’s On Ravensdale Hill. This is due to be premiered at the Manannan Festival on 1st July 2025 as part of an evening of new work by Manx artists.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
Our postponed murder mystery 2021!!!!
We rescheduled and adapted the C*vid postponed Magpie's Muse and created The Magpie's THIEVES. It was AWESOME! The weather was grim but we just put the audience on the stage which worked out fabulously. The original Magpie's Muse is still due to take place at the Erin Arts Centre later the year. It will now be the launch for Asila's Song, Jackie's 2nd Isle of Man Arts Council poetry publication.
Blackbird - written and performed by Jackie Morrey-Grace, an excerpt. Filmed at The Magpie's Thieves by Vicky Lloyd-West.
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Here's a snippet of Penny and the Kingpin created by me, JMG, especially for Penny Production's Till Death Do Us Part Murder Mystery! Now taking place October 16th 2021.
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Penny Production's 'Murder at the Juice Joint,' 2019
This sell-out interactive Penny Performance raised £1,300 for Without Wings, the Manx Autoimmune Arthritis Trust
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Our awesome interactive audience!
Penny Production's 'Sea Ghosts'
Sea Ghosts! Penny Production's first ever proper pop-up and it was a blinder! Douglas Head Amphitheatre - what an awesome venue - and very lucky with the weather :) Thank you to everyone who came to indulge us - over 100 people! <3 28 June 2019 Very excited too to announce Penny Productions is now sponsored by the Arts Council!
Some fabulous write-ups in the newspaper for Sea Ghosts!
Penny Production's 'A Terror of Poets Upon Us'
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Well The Mitre was a little dark and seedy...
A clip from my performance at 'A Terror of Poets Upon Us' - Penny Production's Open Mic Christmas Party 2018 Penny Partner and Manx Litfest Short Story Slam Champ, 2018, Kim Kneen.
Penny Production's plan is dark and seedy - to rip spoken word out of the classroom and let it explode its secret and arcane pleasures into weird and wonderful locations - from the middle of raucous rock and pop sets in dimly lit bars, to lighthouses, glens, festivals, piers, castles, bizarre modes of transport, to mines, and even to the sea - yes, even to the sea. Why not?
The weirder and the more challenging the location, the more surreal the collaboration and the material we'll be creating, the more fantastical and the better the opportunity to dress to express in which we'll be indulging, the greater the fun we'll all have with this bright shiny new adventure that is, Penny Productions. Penny Productions began as a partnership between Jackie's Wicked Rhymes, aka me - Penny Farthing, and one of my greatest local literary inspirations, and absolutely world class talent and prize winning writer in her own right, Kim Kneen, aka Manx Mrytle. Our plan was to pluck guests from the huge pool of literary talent the Island has to offer, in order to give all our favourite writers the chance to shine - and perform! Today, the venture is mainly just Penny - working in collaboration with other poets, but also musicians, dancers, filmmakers, make-up artists, sonic art, and potentially even clowns and shibari at some point in the future - with the occasional open mic or club thrown in for fun. When murder mysteries take our fancy, 'The Penny Orchestra' also consists of Ed Morrey on drums, Steve Gray on keys and Johnny Galbraith on double bass. Creating a stage wherever and whenever the urge takes us, Penny Productions is a combination of original poetry and short fiction, often flavoured with gothic folk and the theatrical, infused with an element of the steam punk or the circus or the brothel... You can find us on Facebook. Come, come, sign up and find us and let us fill you with wonder... Penny Productions is yet another collaborative venture that has sprung out of the outstanding Manx Litfest. Manx Litfest is a literary festival that takes place on the Island over the course of a week every September. Featuring exciting slam competitions as well as opportunities to see world class writers and performers deliver their work, the festival has become a real treat - and hub, for local literary enthusiasts. In fact, its impact has been so significant, and the inspiration behind so many different groups, that year round the Island now offers something for everyone interested in the spoken word, from writing and poetry meets, to storytelling clubs, open mic nights, short story performance groups and even theatre. You can find out more about Manx Litfest by clicking the link below. |
Our first ever performance!
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