Music Theatre
DAVID HAINES (composer / lyricist / librettist)
Written: 1990
Type of Show: For all ages
Duration: 90 mins
Cast: Minimum 20, (all children) no upper limit (has been performed by 40 and more)
Musicians: Original production had 14 players. Vocal score and accompaniment available on cd.
Musical Style: Jazz, pop, rock, classical influences are combined and fused. Virtually through-composed.
Productions: Yealmpton Youthspring, 1990. Two productions by Gatehouse Youthspring, Dawlish 1994 and 1998. Productions in Cambridge, Mass. USA in 2003 and 2008.
Unusual Stage Requirements: The work features a giant jigsaw, that needs to be lifted and displayed to the audience.
Summary of Story: When a piece of the living jigsaw-puzzle doesn't fit one day and another vanishes, the Puzzle-Jigs abandon their home. But in the Real World, the puzzle-jigs are just cardboard cut-outs. Bedraggled and downcast they return to destroy the Piece that Doesn't Fit. Only at the last moment is he saved by the return of the Missing Piece who relates a visionary journey...
Material available: Full Script / CD / Synopsis / Vocal Score