Let’s go back to the 2000s. Lets ‘ed up North.

Nokia bricks in every pocket. Myspace Top 8s. Lads mags. Kappa tracksuits…
But what if you didn’t quite fit the mold?

Meet David — 13, mixed-Jamaican-heritage, and newly uprooted from the city to a small, working-class Northern town where he sticks out like a sore thumb. As he tries to settle into his new life, dodging Myspace drama and dodgy fashion, he finds himself caught in an identity crisis he never asked for: slowly losing touch with his roots in a place that doesn’t quite know what to do with him.

Funny, heartfelt and painfully nostalgic, A Small Town Northern Tale is a high-energy, one-man autobiographical comedy-drama that explores identity, belonging and cultural erasure — all told with sharp character work, humour and poignancy.

Writer and performer Nathan Jonathan plays every character himself, celebrating the wild nostalgia of Y2K culture whilst interrogating how we remember these so-called “simpler times.”

At its core, this is a Black-British coming-of-age story — shaped by domestic abuse and life in a country wrestling with race, class, and regional inequality. It’s about growing up in a world that keeps trying to tell you who you are — and learning to finally push back.