Not a proper review, just some notes for myself.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Not bad but not quite what I had hoped for, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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