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The Piaf Story is a musical storytelling evening about the life of Edith Piaf …

From humble beginnings as a child brought up in abject poverty to her precarious adolescent lifestyle as a street singer from where she is  discovered by an upmarket night club owner who is the catalyst for the next stage of her career, Edith having been an overnight sensation at his club... singing Les Chansons Realistes   .. songs about the ordinary people of Paris who  found love then lost love ...songs about their poverty, physical and emotional pain and the misery of separation, all reflecting Piaf’s own circumstances providing her "raison d'etre” - the need to sing ..enabling her to carry on in the face of adversity and to represent that which touches peoples hearts and brings us all together