The Pianist review – Władysław Szpilman’s Holocaust memoir retold with his own music
Park theatre, LondonThis adaptation is perhaps too smooth but is well-staged and performed, and draws strong feeling from the pianist’s compositionsThe idea of turning the survival story of the Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman into a musical might, on paper, seem distasteful given the stark subject matter of the Holocaust. There is risk of triteness, too, in the light of Roman…
Park theatre, LondonThis adaptation is perhaps too smooth but is well-staged and performed, and draws strong feeling from the pianist’s compositionsThe idea of turning the survival story of the Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman into a musical might, on paper, seem distasteful given the stark subject matter of the Holocaust. There is risk of triteness, too, in the light of Roman…
