Concept Musical
Music: Joe Partridge Book & Lyrics: Sarah Grochala
A coming-of-age story set in the iconic Silicon Valley. A tech billionaire and an estranged daughter. Told through the eyes of a child this piece explores what it’s like to grow up under the scrutiny and the costs involved when chasing perfection.
That Hippie Techie Vibe
Performed by: Rob Gathercole, Rebecca Symmonds, Joe Partridge, Anya Hamilton, Iris Craig, Lucy Tracy, Ralph Warman and Michael Palmer.
Opening number set in Silicon Valley during the 1970s, the epicentre of the hippie movement and the booming technological revolution.
Piece of Me
Performed by: Oli Higginson & Michael Palmer.
In conversation with his lawyer George, this tycoon father denies responsibility for his estranged daughter. Despite a DNA test proving as much, he claims there is an accountable margin of error and boasts anyone in Palo Alto could be the father.
Exactly Like Me
Performed by: Iris Craig.
When a girl sees her estranged father — now a billionaire — on the cover of Time magazine, she feels an unexpected pull toward the image. Living in poverty while he denies her existence, she wrestles with the uncanny reflection of herself in the man who refuses to claim her.
She’s A Part of Me/She’s a Piece of Me/In Between
Performed by: Anya Hamilton, Lucy Tracy and Oli Higginson.
A counterpoint number from Act 2, where the family is caught in limbo. The father realises his responsibility as a farther which the mother struggles with a strain the her relationship with her daughter. The daughter is caught ‘In Between’ drawn to the attraction of being more like her father and yet stuck with the conditions that come with this.