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Help us take Donny dancefloors to national stages!
Pledge your support to Children of the Night’s 2026 National Tour - high-quality theatre championing working-class stories.
Any donation - big or small - goes a long way in helping us bring this love letter to Doncaster to stages across the UK.
YOUR SUPPORT WILL FUND:
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High-quality production
Ensuring professional standards in our design, paying our cat & creative team fairly, contributing towards touring expenses and logistics - creating a show Doncaster can be proud of.
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Partnership work with Terrence Higgins Trust
Post-show Q&As, information stands, and signposting to local HIV testing and support services at every venue.
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Accessible performances
Enabling us to create BSL interpreted performances ensuring more audiences can experience the work.
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Community Engagement
The production of grassroots activity in Doncaster such as creative arts events curated by young people, bringing together different generations for conversation and celebration.
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Creative Commissions & Emerging Talent
Supporting 5 Doncaster-based writers to develop new work inspired by the play's themes, as well as supporting expenses for trainee stage managers, producers and directors to observe the process and gain valuable professional experience.
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Removing barriers to participation
Subsidised tickets, travel support, and accessibility provisions ensuring diverse Doncaster communities can attend.
WHY YOUR SUPPORT MATTERS
For Doncaster:
This is a local story, told with pride and ambition. It challenges stereotypes, celebrates ordinary people, and shows that Doncaster has always been full of extraordinary stories that deserve national platforms.
For important conversations:
By partnering with the Terrence Higgins Trust, we're creating space for open, informed conversations about sexual health and HIV awareness. Every performance will include opportunities for audiences to access information and support services in their local area.
For working-class representation:
Only 26% of people from working-class backgrounds attended theatre last year, compared to 51% from middle-class households. We're making high-quality theatre that's FOR us, BY us, ABOUT us—and proving that Northern stories can compete with anything created in London.
For the next generation:
Through our community engagement programme, young people in Doncaster will curate creative events, gaining skills in arts production while creating meaningful experiences for their community. We're also commissioning 5 local writers, creating opportunities for the next wave of Doncaster storytellers.
