Isabelle review – a sprawling debut driven by big ideas and family conflict

69 Humber Street, Hull
Marc Graham’s debut stretches from festival short to full-length play, tackling inheritance, class and familial resentment with plenty of theatrical confidence

There are many reasons to admire Hull’s Middle Child, a small but determined company in Yorkshire’s East Riding.

It has a genuine interest in developing new writers, enormous ambition (the founders say they want it to be “the most influential new writing theatre outside London”) and it has become one of the first resident companies at the National Theatre under Indhu Rubasingham.