Not a proper review, just some notes for myself.

We went to the theatre today for the first time in forever and saw “Forever Piaf”, a musical about the life of Edith Piaf. A mother/daughter pair (Malena and Beata Ernman) together played Piaf – often on the scene together, one representing Piaf’s external reality and the other one her inner thoughts. An ensemble played the roles of all the other people in her life – mentors, friends, colleagues lovers, more lovers. Somewhat confusingly the same man played several of them, which I guess may have been intended to show how she was drawn to similar men over and over again, but for me it just ended up muddling things.

Many of her most well-known songs were represented but not performed in full. The songs were often woven into her story and sometimes it was unclear to me – not super familiar with all her works – where one ended and the next one began.

Not bad but not quite what I had hoped for, either.