Fish Pie is a surrealist character comedy show that features some of Yorkshire’s finest alternative acts with a heady mix of poetry, puppetry, theatre and music. Set across the seas, Captain Fish fingers, and his merry crew trawl the oceans in search of cabaret talent to take back to Simon Trowel the entertainment's manager of Wisewood social club. Along the journey they come across dancing fish, clare voyant clams, Surfer postmen, Jazz lobsters and more.
History
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Fish pie, started as poetry open mic night at the Rude Shipyard cafe in Sheffield in 2013, back then it was known as the Shipping Forecast and the event would migrate across many different venues in Sheffield including The Great Gatsby, and the Riverside. At the time, host and creator Stan Skinny wanted to run a poetry night that was fun and colourful that presented poetry in a new way. The event would go on to host performance poet heavy weights such as Alabaster Deplume, Luke Wright, Helen Mort among others and build up a reputation as one of leading poetry performance nights in Yorkshire.
However, a move to London for Stan, meant the temporary end to Fish Pie, although he did run a couple of shows in Peckham, London with Alabaster Deplume. Returning back to Sheffield in 2016, Stan wanted to relaunch the Shipping Forecast as a fully character led cabaret experience, as opposed to the characters serving as breaks in-between the poetry performance It relaunched at DINA venue in 2016 in what was to be a one off performance with a group made up from performers from Monkey Butler Improv, and singer songwriter Chris Delamere, now of Soup review.