Mikron Theatre Company

The Mikron Theatre Company is an English touring theatre company, founded in 1972, which is notable for its tours by canal boat during the summer months, and by road in the spring and autumn. The company believes itself to be the only theatre company in the world which tours by narrowboat.

The company had its origins in an Edinburgh Fringe show in 1963. The name "Mikron", as well as being a Greek word meaning "small", is derived from the names of the trio who went to Edinburgh in 1963: MIKe Lucas, Sarah CameRON and RON Legge. In 1972 the company performed its first waterways-themed production, and in 1975 it acquired its narrowboat, Tyseley.

The company is based in the town of Marsden, in West Yorkshire, although it spends the summer touring throughout the UK canal network. It claims to be "the UK’s most prolific theatre company" and in 2015 performed in 150 venues.

We have performed at allotments, care homes, community centres, dry docks, festivals, pubs, rallies, restaurants and village halls. We’ve even performed inside a tunnel, in the bows of a docked boat and in people’s very own front rooms.

The company is a registered charity and describes its activities as "Theatre anywhere for everyone by canal, river and road".

In 2015 it toured two shows: Raising Agents, written by Maeve Larkin and with music by O'Hooley & Tidow, which celebrated the centenary of the Women's Institutes, and One of Each written by Deborah McAndrew, about fish and chips and much else.

Mikron's 2016 tour featured Canary Girls by Laurence Peacock, about 1914 munitions factory workers (who were known as Canary girls because their skin turned yellow from working with toxic substances), and PURE by Richard Vergette, about the chocolate industry now and in the past.

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