URSY.NEWS / The Guardian / 26 Oct 2026
The Pianist review – Władysław Szpilman’s Holocaust memoir retold with his own music
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Park theatre, LondonThis adaptation is perhaps too smooth but is well-staged and performed, and draws strong feeling from the pianist’s compositionsThe idea of turning the survival story of the Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman into a musical might, on paper, seem distasteful given the stark subject matter of the Holocaust. There is risk of triteness, too, in the light of Roman Polanski’s acclaim…
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