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Touring in 2026!
COMING SOON!
The Last Catch
Durham Fringe, The Academy, 29th July – 2nd August, 5pm.
An original story by Philip Harrison
with music by Jacob Harrison
Produced by NTC Touring Theatre Company Ltd.
In Redcar, just off the northeast coast, an old man sits with the tide and remembers when film stars came to these waters and giant fish rose from the deep.
Now his days are marked by diminished worth and the small humiliations of age.
Yet beneath his bitterness lives a stubborn faith: that the monsters have returned,
and that one final voyage might restore the name the world has nearly taken from him.
He sets out to catch what others no longer believe in, accompanied by a young protege drawn into the legend and labour of the hunt.
Together they sail into uncharted waters, where the past resurfaces and the future offers no mercy—only the chance to test what remains of their courage.
Each man is chasing more than the great creature beneath the waves; each is trying to prove something to himself and to a world he has learned to resent.
Told with humour and pathos, this darkly comic play examines what it means to be old and young in the great ocean of life,
where dignity can be as fragile as a line in the surf and legacy as elusive as a shadow under the waves.
It is a story about longing to be seen,
and about the strange grace found when two souls,
separated by age but joined by need,
venture into the deep together.
