New musical Angry Salmon to make London debut at Bridewell Theatre

New British musical Angry Salmon will make its London debut this summer.

Spawned at The Drum, Plymouth Theatre Royal in summer 2022 with 40 young performers and musicians, British Youth Music Theatre’s Angry Salmon will run at Bridewell Theatre from 4 – 6 August 2023 with a refreshed score and story.

The musical, co-written by Jordan Paul Clarke and Ali James, is described as “The Little Mermaid meets Seaspiracy”.

Set in a heightened, cartoonish world, the show follows the inhabitants of a thriving fish-farm who work their fins to the bone in order to be the best. Once a month, the Sky Ceremony happens, and the Humans lower their net to select those who will go on to ‘paradise’… Leo Di-Carprio (the mayor’s eldest daughter), sick of life stuck inside the tanks, initiates a mass escape through a crack in the farm’s borders.

Meanwhile, the humans (zany scientists and fish farmers) realize there has been a breach of security and put an irresistible bounty price on the salmon. The show follows the salmon below the water, searching for their tribe, whilst the humans chase behind, barely taking a moment to question whether or not they’re doing the right thing.

Angry Salmon is a funny, imaginative, and tongue-in-cheek allegory of the eco-awareness crisis in the world right now. It’s about family, freedom and appreciating the things we have before they are gone.

Angry Salmon is co-written and composed by Jordan Paul Clarke and co-written and directed by Ali James with choreography by Jocelyn Prah, lighting design by Nathan Benjamin, costume design by Kritika Agarwal and sound design by A&M Productions.

Writer Jordan Paul Clark said: “If you want to celebrate new musical theatre that combines the humour of a Pixar movie and the epic heart of a huge West End musical, then you should come and see Angry Salmon at the Bridewell Theatre. Complete with fish puns and nautical nonsense, come along to this original story about family, love and finding balance in an unbalanced world.”

For more information and tickets, visit britishyouthmusictheatre.org