Name: The Pianist
Start: 2009-01-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2009-01-27T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Belvoir St Theatre

Organization

Sydney Festival

Mise en scène

Rachel McDonald

Lumières

Stephen Hawker

Acteur

Sean Taylor

Piano

Mikhail Rudy

Traduction

Anthea Bell

Décors

Jo Briscoe

Costumes

Company B

The Pianist

Producer

Surry Hills

Australie

Belvoir St Theatre

The Pianist: Composition Various

Private

Public

Composition

Valide

The Pianist was Presented by Company B and Sydney Festival and is based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman.

In September 1939, concert pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman was midway through a performance of Chopin’s Nocturne in D Flat Major for Polish Radio when the Nazis pulled the power. Six years later, after an infernal odyssey of survival during which he saved his sanity by playing silently on a tabletop every day, Szpilman returned to Polish Radio and completed his recital. The Pianist is his memoir of those six years.

Half a century down the track another great concert pianist, the internationally acclaimed Mikhail Rudy, read Szpilman’s memoir and dreamt up a sublime retelling of the story. Part concert, part play, The Pianist is a duet for two Szpilmans: Rudy on piano and a solo actor recounting the story.

Rudy had been performing the work around the world. Then he came to Belvoir St for a special production with Company B.

English

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