Old Wicked Songs
March 7 - 21, 2010
By: Jon Marans
Directed by: Martin Faucher
Presented by BMO Financial Group
A co-production with
Stephen Hoffman, a brilliant young American piano prodigy, ventures to Vienna in the hope of re-igniting his artistic spark. Set against the backdrop of Kurt Waldheim’s contentious rise to the Presidency of Austria in the 1980’s, the play weaves the songs of Robert Schumann through the story of Hoffman and his Viennese music teacher. Though their experiences and ideas are starkly different, they share music as a common bond that may narrow the gap between them. From the sublime of Vienne Opera to the horror at Dachau, Old Wicked Songs is a clash of generations where past and present meet in a brilliant, dramatic vortex.
Stephen Hoffman, a brilliant young American piano prodigy, ventures to Vienna in the hope of re-igniting his artistic spark. Set against the backdrop of Kurt Waldheim’s contentious rise to the Presidency of Austria in the 1980’s, the play weaves the songs of Robert Schumann through the story of Hoffman and his Viennese music teacher. Though their experiences and ideas are starkly different, they share music as a common bond that may narrow the gap between them. From the sublime of Vienne Opera to the horror at Dachau, Old Wicked Songs is a clash of generations where past and present meet in a brilliant, dramatic vortex.
