HIDE AND SEEK is a coming of age, music-theatre work dealing with addiction and its impact on a family.  The music, lyrics, libretto and orchestrations were written by Mary Lloyd-Butler.  The story is told through the eyes and experiences of Jenny who we meet as a ten year-old child.  Already captive in her role as keeper of secrets and caretaker for her alcoholic mother, ten year-old Jenny sings: ‘Take me with you, wherever you are going. Take me with you. Don’t leave me here alone! Take me with you. Mama, can’t you see me? I’m your own!’  (Take Me with You) Later, as a young woman in her 20s, Jenny turns to self-injury as her struggle between hiding and seeking intensifies. As her mother’s condition worsens, Jenny reprises the cry of her younger self which takes on additional meaning: ‘It seems so crazy and so unreal. We laugh and we cry but we learn not to feel. There’s no one to rescue you, only conceal. Have to hurt. Have to hurt. Have to hurt just to feel.’ This sung-through work has received two readings through Emerging Artists in New York City and is being readied for a workshop production.