Mikron Theatre Company at London Canal Museum

Theatre comes by boat

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Mikron Theatre Company (Registered Charity No 265169) is the best known touring theatre group specialising in canal and waterway related themes. London Canal Museum has been delighted to welcome them every summer summer since 1993.

Man and woman dressed in black holding a documentactors in costume playing music on a boat

Left: All Steamed Up, 2003. Right: Performing for the press on the bow of the Tyseley, in Battlebridge Basin, 26th June 2000. The company has been touring by boat for 36 years. .Left to right: Richard Povall, Elizabeth Eves, Anna Winslet, Edmund Harcourt

See a video clip

The video clip can be downloaded in a choice of formats:

Mikron Clip - Apple Quicktime .mov format

Mikron Clip - MP4 format

Mikron Clip - Windows AVI format

See Mikron in 2009

We look forward to welcoming Mikron Theatre back to the museum in the summer of 2009. The performances have not yet been announced.

Ticket Prices 2008

£9 per person
£7 for concessions (Senior Cit, Child)

How to book:

When bookings open for 2009 you will be able to book in these ways:

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Mikron Theatre in All Steamed Up

The company tour the country on board the narrowboat Tysley, seen below next to the museum's Bantam Tug. For three months the actors, who double up as the crew, the stage hands, and technicians, live aboard as they travel from venue to venue. The cast differs from year to year.

Tysley beside the Bantam Tug

For further information about Mikron and pictures see the Mikron Theatre site.