The story of the Pied Piper is, says Conrad Murray, artistic director of Battersea Arts Centre's Beatbox Academy, the perfect fit for a hip-hop show. ‘It's a story about the power of art and the power of music and poetry,’ he says. The folkloric tale is also rife with ambiguity, he adds. The protagonist is at once the hero and the villain. ‘And we live in an age where things aren't clean cut.’
In Pied Piper, a mix of gig, musical and open mic night performed by a group of talented young beatboxers, Murray, who also co-directs, plays the role of the piper summoned by Hamelin's music-hating mayor to rid the pie factory of vermin.
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