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George Devine Award-winning writer and actor Daniel Ward speaks with artistic director Paul Smith about the nuts and bolts of writing and performing your own work. 

Middle Child produced and premiered Daniel Ward's script The Canary and the Crow in 2019. It went on to sell out performances at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the Paines Plough Roundabout, before transferring to London's Arcola Theatre in 2020. 

Daniel has since won a Writers' Guild Award for Best Play for Young Audiences and the George Devine Award for most promising playwright.

Make Theatre Podcast #1 - Daniel Ward

Danielle Harris joins Middle Child artistic director, Paul Smith, to talk about the ins and outs of deputy stage management.

Make Theatre Podcast #2 - Danielle Harris

Artistic director, Paul Smith, explains the thinking behind our Recover, Restart and Reimagine programme, which will pay 12 Hull theatre workers to spend three weeks with us, developing their practice as we ease out of lockdown.

Why we're supporting Hull theatre workers to Recover, Restart and Reimagine

In a special episode, recorded at Queen's Gardens in Hull, James Frewer speaks with guest presenter, Jenni Harrison, about working as composer and musical director on 'we used to be closer than this'. 

'we used to be closer than this' was a summer cabaret, written by Natasha Brown, Angelo Irving, Tabby Lamb, Jay Mitra, RashDash, Leo Skilbeck, Kobby Taylor and Tom Wells and performed at Absolutely Cultured's Creative Hull festival, from 16-18 July 2021.

Make Theatre Podcast #3 - James Frewer

In a special episode, recorded at Queen's Gardens in Hull, Belle Streeton speaks with guest presenter, Jenni Harrison, about her Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme (RTYDS) placement as assistant director on 'we used to be closer than this'.

'we used to be closer than this' was a summer cabaret, written by Natasha Brown, Angelo Irving, Tabby Lamb, Jay Mitra, RashDash, Leo Skilbeck, Kobby Taylor and Tom Wells and performed at Absolutely Cultured's Creative Hull festival, from 16-18 July 2021.

Make Theatre Podcast #4 - Belle Streeton

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Bossy Women

A Talent Like Me

Black Holed

Three Years

Modest

This Story Is Not Ours

I Can Be Your Best Friend

Performer Emily Gray, who plays Jasmine in There Should Be Unicorns, describes the world of the play, the set, its characters and costumes. 

There Should Be Unicorns features integrated audio description.

There Should Be Unicorns - Audio Description Intro

Audio flyer for the 2022 Middle Child pantomime, Robin Hood: Prince of Thorngumbald. See it at Social on Humber Street in Hull, from 22-30 December. Read by Josie Morley.

Audio Flyer - Robin Hood: Prince of Thorngumbald

Act Two Scene Two 16.12

Panto dame Pattie Breadcake describes the world of Red Riding Hood, its set, characters and costumes.

Red Riding Hood, the rock'n'roll Hull panto, features integrated audio description. 

See it at Social on Humber Street in Hull, from 21-30 December 2023.

Red Riding Hood - Audio Description Introduction

An audio flyer for Baby, He Loves You by Maureen Lennon. A new production coming to Stage@TheDock in Hull, from 19-28 April 2024.

Audio Flyer - Baby, He Loves You

Ten Storey Love Song soundtrack, created by James Orvis (2016)

Ecstacy In All It's Forms

Animals Just For One Night

Welcome To Middlesborough

From the Blog // Christmas at Middle Child is usually about panto in Hull. But this year we haven’t said a word about it. Artistic director, Paul Smith, explains why, in an audio version of his blog post on the Middle Child website.

Christmas, coronavirus and... panto?

Five year old Finn, the son of Middle Child's general and production manager, Emily, is a regular fixture behind the scenes at our annual rock'n'roll panto. 

You can often find him sat in the middle aisle during tech rehearsals, making his way through a bucket of pick and mix while his mum works on the show.

Who better then, we thought, to speak to ahead of the release of our panto-inspired YouTube production, Pattie Breadcake: Into the Pantoverse?

An Interview with Finn (Age 5)

From the Blog // Production and general manager, Emily Anderton, writes about the threat to BTEC qualifications and how she wouldn't be working in theatre without them.

Read by Sophie Clay.

Cutting theatre BTECs will hold back working class theatre makers

We are a Hull-based company creating gig theatre that brings people together for a good night out with big ideas.

We are an Arts Council England national portfolio organisation and associate company of Paines Plough, supported by Absolutely Cultured, Goodwin Development Trust and Hull City Council.

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