![]() These souls are stuck together in the type of theatrical purgatory where stories and secrets are retold night after night they look, too, as if they might be trapped in the cabinet of an upright piano in Camellia Koo’s excellent expressionistic set made up of oversized piano wire strung from floor to fly tower. ![]() But now that complicated Cape Breton clan can be found on stage, too, resurrected for the book’s first adaptation of any kind – a six-hour production spread over two separate performances currently having its world premiere at Canadian Stage in Toronto.Īt the striking start of the show, the characters who populate the Pipers’ extended and gnarled family tree sit down in 15 chairs curved across the wide stage of the Bluma Appel Theatre: 14 wooden ones and a wingback occupied by the family’s piano-tuning patriarch (and perpetual elephant in the room), James. ![]()
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