Photo by Sarah Beth. Richard Bean, the Hull writer behind hit plays The Hypocrite and One…
Jamie Potter11th October 2019
We're teaming up with Hull Libraries to bring a pop-up version of our Theatre Library…
Jamie Potter1st October 2019
Middle Child are pleased to announce fellow Hull theatre company, Silent Uproar, as our first…
Jamie Potter20th September 2019
Photo by EHD Photography Applications are now open for our 2019 First Show Fund, designed…
Jamie Potter14th August 2019
Emily Joy, centre, who received 2018's Career Kickstarter Fund, in action with the National Youth…
Jamie Potter31st July 2019
Fiona Hope took part in our RTYDS Introduction to Directing programme earlier this year and…
Jamie Potter15th July 2019
Rozzy Knox, Danielle Harris and Matthew May. Not pictured: Clare Storton. The Middle Child team…
Jamie Potter11th July 2019
Our theatre library has expanded, thanks to our amazing publishers Oberon, who have once again donated…
Jamie Potter26th June 2019
Do you like to think critically about theatre and wider performance and start a conversation…
Jamie Potter7th June 2019
Middle Child this week welcomes two new members to our board. Fiona Hope is a first year…
Jamie Potter5th June 2019
The Hull Takeover companies. Photo by Thomas Arran. This summer, Hull is heading back to…
Jamie Potter3rd June 2019
Artwork by Chrome Waves Middle Child will once again return to the Paines Plough Roundabout…
Jamie Potter17th May 2019
Do target audiences keep you up at night? Rather learn Klingon than craft a tweet?…
Jamie Potter3rd May 2019
After a successful first 12 months as a new Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation,…
Jamie Potter3rd May 2019
After a successful first 12 months as a new Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation,…
Jamie Potter16th April 2019
Us Against Whatever, Middle Child’s electrifying production will open at Hull Truck Theatre this Wednesday,…
Jamie Potter25th March 2019
Inside the Middle Child rehearsal room. Photo by Thomas Arran. Do you love telling stories?…
Jamie Potter14th January 2019
She Productions and East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Finding Your Voice programme at East Riding…
Jamie Potter14th January 2019
Photo by Sarah Beth This Christmas we will once again be fundraising for a local…
Jamie Potter13th December 2018
Photo by Edmond Denning. Just Club is the first Hull-based theatre company to receive the…
Jamie Potter11th December 2018
Last year we hit the Edinburgh Fringe alongside three other Hull-based companies and a Hull…
Jamie Potter7th December 2018
From Monday 3 to Friday 7 December we're offering huge discounts on our play scripts…
Jamie Potter3rd December 2018
Photo by Helen Murray Actor and Middle Child associate artist Alice Beaumont writes about her…
Jamie Potter21st November 2018
Photo by Helen Murray Middle Child associate artist and All We Ever Wanted Was Everything…
Jamie Potter6th November 2018
Lindsey Alvis Middle Child executive director and joint chief executive, Mungo Beaumont, will today save…
Jamie Potter10th August 2018
Emily Cox, centre. Photo: National Youth Theatre. Hull actor Emily Cox is the first person…
Jamie Potter20th July 2018
StorytEllas by She Productions She Productions is the first Hull-based theatre company to receive match funding through…
Pace27th June 2018
Eve Nicol (Photo: Sandra Franco) Eve Nicol is interested in the reasons why having sex…
Jamie Potter12th June 2018
The new Middle Child board met for the first time in May under new chair,…
Pace25th May 2018
Former Hull UK City of Culture 2017 chief executive and director, Martin Green CBE, has…
Pace21st March 2018
Back in December 2016, during our run of Dick Whittington at Fruit, we collected money…
Pace15th January 2018
By Mungo Beaumont, producerOh yes, it is! Oh no, it’s not! OK, promise, the worst of…
Pace4th December 2017
Photo by Wullie Marr. By Paul Smith, artistic director Middle Child will soon be entering…
Pace25th October 2017
By Emma Bright, company member Do you ever find yourself in a situation where you…
Pace21st October 2017
Alice Beaumont as the Asteroid in All We Ever Wanted Was Everything. Photo by Wullie…
Pace22nd August 2017
Marc Graham was presented with his award by The Stage editor, Natasha Tripney. Photo: Wullie…
Pace7th August 2017
By Mungo Beaumont, Producer Ten Storey Love Song at Jack Dome Pleasance, 2016. Photo by…
Pace11th July 2017
Everyone at Middle Child is absolutely buzzing to be part of the Arts Council's National…
Pace27th June 2017
Boom! We've just released a free four-track EP ahead of our Hull UK City of…
Pace15th May 2017
We are thrilled to announce that we will be taking our big Hull UK…
Pace12th May 2017
A three step guide to our three act play Paul Smith, artistic director A suspicious…
Pace27th February 2017
Three of the UK’s most exciting theatre companies have joined forces to set fire to…
Pace13th February 2017
The dust has settled on our 2016 pantomime Dick Whittington and it was a terrific…
Pace9th January 2017
Following our successful panto crowdfunding campaign, we are giving away 200 free tickets to…
Pace5th December 2016
It’s a matter of weeks before we start rehearsals for our 2016 pantomime, and Middle…
Pace6th November 2016
There’s five days to go until Ten Storey Love Song opens at the Edinburgh Fringe…
Pace29th July 2016
By Paul Smith, artistic director “Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, …
Pace5th April 2016
By Marc Graham, pictured above. 96% of theatre is shit. Let me define shit. I…
Pace30th March 2016
By Ellen Brammar, Middle Child Ellen, left, in Apples (2012). It can sometimes…
Pace3rd February 2016
By Paul Smith, artistic director From the Ten Storey Love Song poster, by Caitlin…
Pace27th January 2016
Middle Child is proud to announce the continuation of our relationship with Hull Truck theatre…
Pace27th January 2016
Middle Child theatre company is thrilled to welcome Hull-based designer Natalie Young to the team…
Pace22nd January 2016
Everybody pooh-poohs the pantomime, but everybody goes to see it. - Gerald Frow, Oh Yes…
Pace4th December 2015
“The purpose of art is to throw us back into life with more passion” - FRANCIS…
Pace6th October 2015
Complimentary tickets are the bane of my life. Not because there’s pennies to be pinched…
Pace18th September 2015
The last time I wrote one of these we were about to enter into the…
Pace8th September 2015
Greetings! I'm Jamie, the new communications manager at Middle Child. Over the next few months…
Pace6th September 2015
Originally written as a guest blog for A Younger Theatre My name is Paul Smith…
Pace13th August 2015
