Jam Tarts and Gingerbread
A boy with health has a hundred dreams:
a boy without has only one.
I am Health:
your one true wealth;
your ticket, passport, gateway, key.
Jam Tarts and Gingerbread is a play about food, health and body weight for children and young people, and the adults who care for them. It could also be described as the libretto for the world's first plant-based musical. I wrote it for my PhD during my time at Edge Hill University, where it began life as a painting...
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DOCTOR Do you like painting Fritz?
The DOCTOR puts on a white coat. It’s reminiscent of doctors’ white coats, but longer and more flamboyant. She holds a tendon hammer like a wand.
FRITZ I dunno. Not really.
DOCTOR
Well then, now’s the time to start. Art, Fritz, is the realm of the heart! I’m a bit short of a wardrobe but come and look at this instead (beckons to FRITZ to come over and stand in front of a painting on the wall, which he does. The DOCTOR positions FRITZ in front of the painting). First you must cross the grey desert, and then you must cross the green desert. Eventually you’ll come to the Shed by the Edge of the Sea. This is not the Edge, but only the beginning. To find Health you must journey beyond the Edge. Now, walk forwards.