Lily by Jo Lennie

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Lily​ is a play with songs set in a run-down piano bar.  It’s the story of a missing teenage girl and the people left behind after her disappearance. Tackling loss, love, temptation, deception and guilt, it’s about losing someone, losing yourself and trying to find your way back. This work is a darkly comic contemporary play about missing people, crime, and media interference, with music and song woven throughout.

 

The music ranges from vintage swing to country and contemporary pop. An onstage jazz quartet provide an atmospheric backdrop to the play as the characters use song to explore their emotions and reveal darker and more intimate truths.

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Current Production Development

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Originally the recipient of the Progressive Playwright Award 2017 at The Tron Theatre. We have  been developing ‘Lily’ with funding from Creative Scotland's Open Fund .

 

Work has taken place on both script and music development with director Allie Winton Butler and musical director David Higham. A sharing of this work was presented at The Traverse Theatre in May 2019. A video clip from this  work can be seen below.

 

With the play now ready for touring, the team are exploring further funding opportunities.