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PIAF by Pam Gems (SOLD OUT)

PIAF by Pam Gems 

IRISH PREMIERE

Sunday Times ***** "Piaf lives again...O'Sullivan is spellbinding"

Irish Times ****

 Tickets are available only through our Box Office. boxoffice@gate-theatre.ie

PIAF is a captivating and uncompromising look at Édith Piaf in all her grit and glory, tracing her life from her days singing for change on the streets of Belleville to the high-end nightclubs of New York. Acclaimed singer CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN will play the iconic French chanteuse Édith Piaf, in a production directed by DES KENNEDY (Good Vibrations).

West End star Aoife Mulholland (Chicago, The Sound of Music, Legally Blonde) will make her Gate Theatre debut, alongside actors Kwaku Fortune, Emmanuel Okoye and Ash Rizi.

The show’s talented ensemble will include Gate Theatre veteran Phelim Drew; Irish Times Theatre Award winners Kate Gilmore and Rory Nolan; Zara Devlin, previously seen at the Gate in The Glass Menagerie; and Darragh Shannon, who recently starred as Matt in The Steward of Christendom.

The glamour, squalor and excitement of Piaf’s meteoric rise and her heartbreaking fall is vividly captured through her relationships with her lifelong friend and confidante Toine, nightclub owner Louis Leplée, her lover, Marcel, and of course, her timeless music.

Unique and unforgettable like Piaf herself, this magical show will centre on the incomparable Camille O’Sullivan as she channels the Little Sparrow and brings her dazzling style to standards including La Vie en rose and Je ne regrette rien.

At Home with Camille (losing it in lockdown....)

Little films of songs in diff parts of house filmed over one day in lockdown on an iphone, we made for my first online gig for Cork Midsummer Festival 'At Home with Camille' (losing it in lockdown..) Thought it would be nice to begin from the moment we woke up in the morn to when we slept at night a wee journey through the house and outside to car and garden...filmed by aidan gillen, some by me on selfie,  and makeup by 7 year old daughter. Dancing on the kitchen table, little lullaby under the festoon lights in the garden by the tent, singing in the car..Was fun to learn how to edit on imovie and sing while hoovering...