"Why did I want to create a show on Edith Piaf? Everybody knows Edith Piaf... we all know her story, right? ….Non! No, actually, we don’t! You see, the truth is, it’s hard to know the truth about Piaf….and THAT is the fault of Piaf herself, who had total disdain for the ordinary... as if there was anything ‘ordinary’ in the life of Edith Piaf!
Born in abject poverty, abandoned by her mother at birth, raised in a brothel run by her grandmother, blinded at the age of 3, ultimately singing on every street corner of Paris for survival till...