Well, here i am again at the Manchester International Festival for this week's entertainment. On the agenda this week are two eagerly awaited performances, The Pianist and Pretend you have Big Buildings.
Based on Wladyslaw Szpilman's story of survival, The Pianist is better known by Roman Polanski's film. This performance, by director and writer Neil Bartlett, is narrated by actor Peter Guinness and features renditions of Chopin and Szpilman's music by Mikhail Rudy.
The choice of venue struck me and my accompanying friend as somewhat unusual until we arrived, having finally parked and found our way through the cold mancunion streets. The warehouse attic of the Museum of Science and Industry provided the ideal atmospheric backdrop for a powerful tale of survival narrated with sardonic verve and compassion. Mikhail Rudy's performance was heavenly, an angelic aphrodisiac.
Tonight's play, Pretend you have Big Buildings, by 26 year old Ben Musgrave, promises to be equally inspiring. Until then, i shall sketch to some Edith Piaf, Chopin, and, in anticipation of Sunday's Rise Festival, The Holloways.
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