Author: Editor

Following on from Crude Apache’s sell out show at the Maddermarket, Norwich in 2020 about the Norfolk Broads: At The Turning Of The Tide, the company will take the audience out to sea and into the world of the herring fishing industry from 1892 to the nineteen-sixties.

Singing The Fishing is a musical play based on Ewan McColl’s sixties BBC radio broadcast of the same name. Using all of MacColl’s original songs and based on the original musical direction by Peggy Seeger, the company weave music and narrative together into a gripping and enchanting tale of man’s battle against the elements, the sea, the vagaries of a capitalist market place and two world wars.

Singing The Fishing is a human story of joy, triumph and tragedy, with a large ensemble cast and multi-instrumental acoustic band bringing the music and story to vivid and dramatic life.

This show will appeal to anyone who loves the sea and boats, who loves the history of the East Coast and its industry or who loves folk music and particularly the music of the great Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger.

The show is dedicated to the memory of Ewan, the generosity of Peggy and the legacy of the fishermen of Great Yarmouth and the East Coast.

Singing the Fishing runs from Wednesday the 24th – Saturday the 27th of January 2024 at 19:30pm with a matinee on Saturday at 14:30 pm.

Tickets for all shows are £12 and £10 for concessions and can be purchased by contacting the theatre on boxoffice@maddermarket.org or 01603 620917

Theatre website: https://maddermarket.co.uk/event/singing-the-fishing/

All songs written by Ewan MacColl – published by Ewan MaCcoll Limited / Harmony Music Ltd
Used with permission of the publishers.