Mikron Theatre Company

[5] The company is based in the town of Marsden, in West Yorkshire, although it spends the summer touring throughout the UK canal network.

[2][4][6] It claims to be "the UK's most prolific theatre company", performing in over 130 venues each year, and by the end of 2024 estimates that it will have boated for 35,686 hours and travelled 567,000 miles (912,000 km) by road.

[2] We have performed at allotments, care homes, community centres, dry docks, festivals, lifeboat stations, pubs, rallies, restaurants, village halls, Youth Hostels.

We’ve even performed inside a tunnel, in the bows of a docked boat, for naturist audiences, in people’s very own front rooms and even the odd theatre.The company is a registered charity and describes its activities as "Theatre anywhere for everyone by canal, river and road".

[19][20] Maclachlan has previously acted in the company and directed their 2009 production Tales of the Thames, which was written by her husband Richard Povall.

[21] In 2019 the company presented Redcoats, a play about Butlin's holiday camps, by Nick Ahad and All Hands on Deck about the Wrens by Vashti MacLachlan.

[11][30] In 2022 the company revived the 2015 show, Raising Agents,[31] and commissioned a new play, Red Sky at Night, written by Lindsay Rodden, about weather forecasting.