Middle Child
Suitable for ages 16+
Show description
From the co-creator of Interstellar Elder ★★★★★ & Little Orange Man ★★★★★
Meet the Middle child. The peacemaker. Squished between. Easily overlooked .....and the siblings who refuse to let the story be told alone. Three Bouffon clowns crawl from the wreckage of childhood to reenact, distort, and delight in the chaos that made them. With physical comedy and warped nostalgia, they conjure the mythic worlds of sibling rivalry—A how-to-guide for surviving childhood, put through the blender.
Sharp, silly, and strangely heartfelt—you’ll laugh, squirm, and recognize the monsters in your own family.
LIVE AT THE MONTREAL FRINGE JUNE 2026!
Fringe Venue #3: Petit Campus
Address: 57-b Rue Prince-Arthur E, Montréal, QC H2X 1B4
Friday, June 12 @ 8:15 pm
Saturday, June 13 @ 3:15 pm
Tuesday, June 16 @ 7:15 pm
Wednesday, June 17 @ 10:15 pm
Friday, June 19 @ 8:45 pm
Sunday, June 21 @ 2:15 pm
TICKETS $15
CONTENT WARNING:
Suitable for ages 16+, may use feathers, mention of abuse (physical, mental, verbal, sexual), mention of excessive or gratuitous violence, mention of pornography, themes of death and/or dying, themes of blood, themes of mental illness
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Credits
Produced by SNAFU Society of Unexpected Spectacles
Co-Created & Performed by Kathleen Greenfield, Jack Widow, Tony Adams
Stage Manager (Montreal) - Lola Ball
Outside Eyes/Collaborators - Jayne Walling, Britt Small
Photos by Hélène Cyr
THANK YOUS
This show was created with support from the CRD Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Province of British Columbia.
Also big thank you’s to The Shire Arts Hub, Theatre SKAM, and Atomic Vaudeville.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Kathleen Greenfield
Co-Artistic Producer of SNAFU, Co-Creator & Performer
About KathleenKathleen (they/she) lives, collaborates and creates new work on the unceded territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. Kathleen’s interests and experience are in site-specific outdoor performance, shadow and object puppetry, clown, ritual and collaborative creation. Kathleen has a BFA in Theatre from the University of Victoria and studied at the Banff Puppet Theatre Intensive in 2012. In 2024 Kathleen was awarded the Pro-Art Alliance Mid-Career Artist Award for their contributions to the regional arts community in Victoria.
In 2013, Kathleen joined SNAFU as Co-Artistic Producer. They have directed three giant roving park shows: Lieutenant Nun in 2015 (co-directed with Mercedes Batiz-Benet, Puente Theatre) New Earth Bandits (2023) and New Earth Bandits 2 (2025). Kathleen has directed the premiere productions of Calling Home: Stories from Military Families (SNAFU, Belfry Incubator), Little Orange Man, Kitt & Jane and Interstellar Elder (SNAFU).
In the summer of 2018, Kathleen directed a rotating double cast of twenty teen performers in a site-specific performance of Concord Floral by Jordan Tannahill. This play was staged in an abandoned Department Store in Downtown Victoria and produced by SKAM.
Kathleen joined the artistic team at William Head Prison in 2013 as a facilitator, workshop leader, assistant director, projection designer, writer and performer for Time Waits for No One: A Prison Play (2014) and HERE: A Captive Odyssey (2015) and The Crossroads: A Prison Cabaret alongside a team of incarcerated participants and outside artists. Kathleen led WHoS participants in the creation of Sleeping Giants (2016) and The Emerald City Project (2019). Kathleen facilitated, recorded & edited the Dark Traveller Prison Podcast in 2020/2021 during pandemic lockdown.
Kathleen has training in Bouffon and clown with Michael Kennard (Mump & Smoot) and Britt Small (Atomic Vaudeville). She performs mind-bending clown rituals on stage with Atomic Vaudeville, and is currently developing a new solo clown show with SNAFU titled, Middle Child.
Kathleen is passionate about supporting artists who are driven to create and produce their own work. They’ve built plays with kids ranging from age 3 to 18, artists with disabilities at Garth Homer Society and WHoS prison theatre alumni-on-parole. Kathleen currently teaches creative development and grant writing to emerging artists at Canadian College of Performing Arts. Kathleen is also Co-Leader of Atomic Vaudeville where they mentor new creators & producers.
Jack Widow
Co-Creator & Performer
About JackJack (They/Them) has spent a lifetime performing and started developing their skills more formally at the Victoria School of Performing and Visual Arts where they specialized in Drama, Acting & Ballet (2001-2005). Since then, they have performed in a multitude of short films, theatre festivals, and one off shows throughout Alberta and B.C.
Since 2015, Jack has been an Ensemble Cast Member of the award winning theatre company Atomic Vaudeville, writing for, designing costumes/props and performing in the company's twice annual Cabaret series as well as a recent Bouffon workshop showing of The Chasm.
Most recently they have collaborated with SNAFU Company for New Earth Bandits Two and Drag Sunday Productions Church.
Jack has, and continues to study Clowning and Bouffon under the direction of Britt Small (Atomic Vaudeville) and Michael Kennard (Mump & Smoot), as well as Emotionally Integrated Voice work with Fides Krucker.
Tony Adams
Co-Creator & Performer
About TonyTony Adams has been creating and performing original work since 2010 and they have taken multiple shows on tour across the Canadian Fringe circuit as well as through curated festivals. In Victoria, Tony has worked predominantly with Atomic Vaudeville (The Chasm, Vaudeville Series) and SNAFU Dance (New Earth Bandits I & II, MIDDLE CHILD) in devising and performing new work, as well as working extensively in improv with Paper Street Theatre. In Ottawa I was the Co-Artistic Director of May Can Theatre, with whom they created over 15 original pieces. Notable shows include Happiness™ (rEvolver Festival, Wildside Festival, Tactics Series), and Wolves > Boys (CBC top ten shows of 2014) and It’s About Our Goldfish (subDevision, Magnetic North Theatre Festival 2013). May Can Theatre received 7 Prix Rideau Award nominations for their work.
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