A CITY centre chippie will be serving up fish, chips and musical theatre this month.

The In Plaice at the bottom of Sunbridge Road, Bradford, might seem an unlikely venue for a musical - but then Freedom Studios, the theatre company behind the production, doesn't go for likely venues.

Presented by Freedom Studios and Octagon Theatre, Bolton, Chip Shop the Musical is about "UK grime, Yorkshire brass and fish and chips".

When shy teenager Ayla blags a job in her local chippie, her secret dreams of a grime music career seem more out of reach than ever. It doesn’t help that her boss, Gram, is a cynical, brass band-loving bloke who’s falling out of step with the world as it changes around him. On the surface they have nothing in common, but can they come together and sort their lives - and the chip shop - out, before business and personal pressures force a closure?

Funded by Arts Council England, Yorkshire Festival, and seafood authority Seafish, the plays is an uplifting story about friendship, mismatched music - and chips. Starring Remmie Milner as wannabe MC Ayla and Darren Southworth as Gram, it will also be performed at Guiseley's Wetherby Whaler and other regional venues, as well five special performances at this summer's Yorkshire Festival.

Emma Hill, the play's writer, lead artist and co-producer, a writer, has written the book and lyrics, developed and produced the concept, creative team, digital content and outreach programme, and raised two rounds of Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts funding awards towards developing and touring the show.

She said: "My dad lives in Bradford and I developed as a writer when Deborah Dickinson was creative producer at Freedom Studios. I'm delighted to be bringing this show to share with Bradford audiences.”

Directed by Ben Occhipinti, the show features a stirring blend of brass music and grime beats from from DJs Coco, BBC Radio 1 Annie Mac’s artist to watch in 2016, and Jo Kira, and award-winning brass band, Wingates. The choreographer is Yorkshire breakdancer Nathan Geering, who has appeared in productions such as Breakin' Convention at Sadler Wells and was nominated for the London Dance Award.

Based in Little Germany, Freedom Studios develops talent among writers and artists, and creates work for non-theatre and theatre spaces. It specialises in connecting people and communities through storytelling and promenade theatre.

Last October it presented Brief Encounters, a series of short plays performed in Bradford Interchange. Based on observations and interviews, the production was inspired by real stories of people who use and work at the station. From a cleaner making a shocking discovery to an elderly woman confronting her past, each story celebrated the city’s “warmth, welcome, humour and grit".

Freedom Studios also produced The Mill - City of Dreams, in which the audience followed actors around Drummonds Mill, bringing its industrial past to life. Performed in 2011, the play came out of 18 months of interviews with former mill-workers and focused on three real-life stories reflecting the mighty mill's diverse workforce.

* Chip Shop the Musical is at In Plaice, Bradford, from Monday, May 23 to Friday, May 27 at 8pm and the Wetherby Whaler, Guiseley, on June 23.

The Yorkshire Festival dates are the White Horse, Thirsk, June 16; Seafish, Conisbrough, June 19; and Nash’s, Leeds, on June 21 and 22.

Yorkshire Festival features world premieres, UK exclusives and spectacular outdoor performances, as well as music, theatre, arts and dance in theatres and clubs. Visit yorkshirefestival.co.uk