The Pianist review – Władysław Szpilman’s Holocaust memoir retold with his own music

Park theatre, London This adaptation is perhaps too smooth but is well-staged and performed, and draws strong feeling from the pianist’s compositions The idea of turning the survival story of the Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman into a musical might, on paper, seem distasteful…

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