Organization

Sydney Festival

Stage director

Rachel McDonald

Lighting designer

Stephen Hawker

Actor

Sean Taylor

Pianist

Mikhail Rudy

Translator

Anthea Bell

Set designer

Jo Briscoe

Costume designer

Company B

The Pianist

Producer

Surry Hills

Australia

Belvoir St Theatre

The Pianist: Composition Various

Private

Public

Composition

Approved

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

The Pianist by Various, From (2009/2009), Directed by Rachel McDonald,, Belvoir St Theatre, Surry Hills, Australia

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Crew

Co-Producer

Programme, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues