Youth Arts Leicestershire - Melvin Burgess – The Baby and Fly Pie
Young people from Leicestershire have been performing with Youth Arts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the past 15 years. Youth Arts Leicestershire is an independent charitable organisation formed in 1993 which works to sustain quality participatory performing arts activities for young people aged 5 – 25 years.
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The Rubbish kids - losers and orphans, owned and protected by Mother Shelley – work by scavenging through the rubbish tips for stuff to sell on. These kids dream of another life, yet even when some of these losers find a kidnapped baby will it be enough to turn them into winners?
Performances:
11th to 16th August , 18:30 to 19:30
Price: £7.00 (£5.00)
Book tickets on the Fringe website
QFP 1.02.27
Live adventurously. When choices arise, do you take the way that offers the fullest opportunity for the use of your gifts in the service of God and the community? Let your life speak. When decisions have to be made, are you ready to join with others in seeking clearness, asking for God's guidance and offering counsel to one another?
Advices and Queries
What is the value of Human life?
Again Youth Arts Leicestershire, under the directorship of Carla Cicinskas and Robert Staunton bring another thought provoking play to Edinburgh this year.The play "The Baby and the Fly Pie"is a contemporary "Oliver Twist" with Mother Shelley(alias Fagin) controlling the rubbish tip kids' destinies.On the tip all survive on society's discarded rubbish, harbouring dreams of escape.When that escape comes in the form of a kidnapped baby and a £17 million ransom three of the rubbish tip kids:-Sham,Davy and Jane(alias Oliver) seize the opportunity to seek their fortunes.Little can they predict how their quest for money will lead to a spiral of hypocrisy,exploitation and...death.
What is the value of human life?What are the moral values each baby inherits at birth?Irrelevant if born to "rags or riches"the moral dilemma of our existence is true for each one of us.The manipulative force of money destroys human relationships and lives through greed and hypocrisy.
This production proves that nothing is too great a challenge for this inspirational youth theatre group.Performed by talented actors who interchange roles deftly and use the theatre space with ingenuity, this play portrays the maturity and originality of this company.
Congratulations to these talented young performers whom we look forward to seeing next year.