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“NTC’s productions may be small-scale and done on a \u2018shoestring\u2019 but they are backed by a team which can match anything done by much bigger, purpose built theatres and whose imagination and ability to weave a storytelling magic as they transform unpromising spaces into theatres for the night is second to none”<\/b><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_testimonial job_title=”The Stage” portrait_url=”https:\/\/www.northumberlandtheatre.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/the-stage-logo.png” _builder_version=”4.17.6″ _module_preset=”default” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ box_shadow_spread=”8px” box_shadow_color=”#88C4DD” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n “Northumberland Theatre Company is renowned for highly inventive theatre. 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Last Catch<\/span><\/h2>\n
Durham Fringe, The Academy, 29th July – 2nd August, 5pm.<\/span><\/h2>\n
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An original story by Philip Harrison<\/span>
with music by Jacob Harrison<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
Now his days are marked by diminished worth and the small humiliations of age.<\/span>
Yet beneath his bitterness lives a stubborn faith: that the monsters have returned,<\/span>
and that one final voyage might restore the name the world has nearly taken from him.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Together they sail into uncharted waters, where the past resurfaces and the future offers no mercy\u2014only the chance to test what remains of their courage.<\/span>
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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
where dignity can be as fragile as a line in the surf and legacy as elusive as a shadow under the waves.<\/span>
It is a story about longing to be seen,<\/span>
and about the strange grace found when two souls,<\/span>
separated by age but joined by need,<\/span>
venture into the deep together.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n