Mikron Theatre Company announce productions for 50th anniversary

Mikron Theatre Company announce productions for 50^th anniversary tour

Mikron Theatre’s four strong cast will take two plays via the company’s narrowboat and van to 130 venues to celebrate their 50^th anniversary.

One play is the premiere of Red Sky at Night which is Lindsay Rodden’s new play about the nation’s obsession with the wild and wonderful world of weather. The other revisits their successful 2015 production of Maeve Larkin’s play about the Women’s Institute, Raising Agents.

Mikron are based in the village of Marsden at the foot of the Yorkshire Pennines, and over the last 50 years have played to nearly half a million people as they toured 66 productions on board their vintage narrowboat spending over 34,000 boating hours on the inland waterways. 

That means they perform their shows in places that other theatre companies wouldn’t dream of including doing a play about growing-your-own on an allotment or performing a show about fish and chips to audiences in a chippie.

“We are so blooming chuffed to have reached our golden jubilee year, half a century,” says Artistic Director Marianne McNamara. “There have been times that we did not think we would make it; funding challenges, boat stoppages and a pandemic have been hurdles along the way.

“The reason we are still here is because of the incredible support that we have received from our friends and supporters up and down the country. We are so grateful to them.” 

Raising Agents will be touring nationally from 7th April and Red Sky at Night from 14th May with both shows ending on 22nd October.

For further information and tour dates on Raising Agents and Red Sky at Night visit https://www.mikron.org.uk/shows