From the Multi Award-winning duo behind London’s smash-hit Brixton Calling (Southwark Playhouse), the OFFIE’s most awarded show of the season (Best Production, Best Sound & Music and Best Design 2026), WhatsOnStage-nominated Best Studio Production, and 9x Fringe Award nominated production company, comes a stunning new story The Jolly Fisherman, which premieres at Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s Underbelly George Square this summer from 5 - 31 August. The Jolly Fisherman is the story of Alan, Amir and England. We meet thirteen-year-old Alan who takes us on a tour of his entire world. It’s a tour that starts and ends inside the walls of The Jolly Fisherman: a red-brick, much-loved pub ten minutes north of Barking town centre, the raw heart of East London. Alan’s sheltered life is soon interrupted by the arrival of Amir. With his dark curly hair and light brown skin, Amir arrives as part of a wave of second-generation British-Pakistani immigrants new to the area. Naive to the noises around them, the boys strike up an unlikely friendship which deepens as their school years tick by. But when events close to home take a surprising but inevitable turn, the boys must come face to face with each other and the change they see all around them. This is a story of enduring friendship from one of the faultlines of our shape-shifting national identity.

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