Article for 2014 Jul 05

2014

2014 Jul

Jul 05 Sat

Jigsaw had three performances of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” today, as per the promotional poster I designed. Two were in front of the Town Hall; the other was on a temporary stage set up on Cambrian View for the Garden Quarter Remembers Festival commemorating the start of the Great War 100 years ago and celebrating the successes the eponymous suburb has enjoyed since. I guess in doing the festival gig Jigsaw were celebrating themselves: they are one of the greatest successes to originate from and rehearse in the area. While the Emperor’s finery may be illusion, Jigsaw’s is certainly not.

After the Jigsaw shows were all over, one of the cast told me that, as excellent as my lyrics were (his adjective), he hoped for even better ones next year. I suppose it’s a testament to how focussed Jigsaw are on the play at hand that very few of them know I won’t be coming back in September unless I have such a disastrous run of exam-results that no acceptable universities accept me. I am of course still happy to contribute the odd set of lyrics, and to design more posters and programmes, and I extend my offer of lyrics and designs to Jigsaw’s sister Quartz, and Jigsaw’s/Quartz’s next rehearsal should be before Freshers’ Week so I’ll probably be at both drama-groups one last time, but until then I have four things to say: “Thank you extremely very much”, “You’re exceedingly welcome”, “Goodbye”, and, in the words of Bachman-Turner Overdrive (covered by the act performing on the Cambrian View stage after Jigsaw), “You ain’t seen nothing yet!”