The Railway Children

Adapted by Mike Kenny
Directed by Wendy Lowe and Wendie Middleton

Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, Middlesbrough Little Theatre Ltd and Middlesbrough Youth Theatre join forces to stage Mike Kenny’s imaginative stage adaptation of E. Nesbit’s much-loved children’s classic.

When their father mysteriously disappears with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phylis are turned upside-down. Forced to leave the comforts of their privileged London life in exchange for a simple existence in the depths of the Yorkshire countryside, this fractured family soon discover new friendships and an unexpected secret that will change their lives forever.
Famously filmed, this story of a prosperous Edwardian family forced into near-penury in the rural north of England captures the anxieties and exhilarations of childhood with great tenderness and insight.

Mike Kenny’s version of The Railway Children was first staged at the National Railway Museum in York in 2008, before receiving a major production at Waterloo Station in London in 2010.