Welcome to The Middle of Nowhere! Where people eat their words, cry over spilt milk and let cats out of the bag – our musical play tells the story of a fictional medieval town where all of the weird and wonderful idioms in the English language were founded.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder – so naturally the notoriously ugly King Silverspoon wants all of the eyes in the kingdom. But when he hears news of a ferocious beast with one big, beautiful eye lurking in the woods outside of town, a wild adventure beckons and all hell breaks loose.

A folk musical that takes inspiration from folklore, fairy-tales, Medieval morality plays, Jacobean tragicomedy, sketch comedy and cabaret. Set in a fictional medieval kingdom – The Middle of Nowhere – the play imagines how well-known idioms such as ‘curiosity killed the cat’ and ‘crying over spilt milk’ came to be. These tales are interwoven as part of a spectacularly surreal narrative journey which centres around the dastardly King Silverspoon (born with a silver spoon in his mouth – literally) and his search for the eye of The Beast.

Performance at 10 Feet Tall, Cardiff Fringe Festival, June 2016