Yellow Moon - The Ballad of Leila and Lee

Editorial

When: 2 - 26 September, 2010
Where: Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre
Tickets: Belvoir St Theatre

Scottish Playwright David Greig's latest work, Yellow Moon - The Ballad of Leila and Lee is gritty, inventive and painfully honest. The central characters may be troubled teens, but the message is universally pertinent.

Stag Lee is a cocky kid intent on a life of crime and booze. Silent Leila is a Muslim girl, miserably lost in glossy magazines, a world away from her own. One Friday night, coincidence brings them together for a moment long enough to change their lives forever. On the run from a murder, they seek refuge together in the Scottish highlands with a man and his gun.

Yellow Moon is not just a story about two confused fugitives; rather, their individual searches for identity in a frighteningly dysfunctional world. It's contemporary Bonnie-and-Clyde meeting Big Brother, confronting painful issues such as self harm, murder, celebrity obsession and alienation.

Susanna Dowling will direct the play supported by Danielle Cormack, Layla Estasy, John Shrimpton and Richard Sydenham, each playing character and narrator.

Will Leila and Lee have time to discover themselves before their pasts catch them up? Join the audience for an answer and an evening of adventurous theatre.

Emma McGowan, Citysearch