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Puzzle With The Piazza, The

  • Mark Dunn
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 1M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573709777

As she's being forced to move out of her home, a septuagenarian enlists the help of her homebuyers to put together the last unfinished puzzle in her collection.

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
A story of a septuagenarian, who has one jigsaw puzzle among her large collection that she’s never finished. It contains 3,000 pieces and she has less than a day to finish it, because poor health has forced her to move in with her younger sister… without her puzzles.

This gentle, bittersweet play explores the fragility of family ties and the often much stronger bonds of friendship that lattice the final years of our lives.

REVIEWS:

"Funny, at times heartbreaking and ultimately heartwarming."

 Patch

"A gentle, bittersweet comedy about the fragility of family ties, and the often much stronger bonds of friendship that lattice in the final years of our lives."

 Broadway World

"A pleasure to watch and listen to."

 Patch

Premiere Production: The play received a series of virtual stagings in 2020 and 2021. The first was produced by Torrance Theatre Company in California. Its first live staging was in February 2022 by Catch a Star Theatrical Players in Beaumont, CA.
  • Casting: 1M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors, Ensemble cast, Roles for Multicultural Casting, Non-Traditional casting

  • ALTHEA WITLIN
    LEIF MORRELL
    MATTIE PLESHETTE
    CONNIE MORRELL
    INA GLUCK
    and the pre-recorded radio voices of one woman and two men.
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    A story of a septuagenarian, who has one jigsaw puzzle among her large collection that she’s never finished. It contains 3,000 pieces and she has less than a day to finish it, because poor health has forced her to move in with her younger sister… without her puzzles.

    This gentle, bittersweet play explores the fragility of family ties and the often much stronger bonds of friendship that lattice the final years of our lives.

    $24.95