A musical tribute to the life of iconic Edith Piaf will be the final production in Jermyn Street Theatre’s packed spring/summer season.
Devised by Annie Castledine, Elizabeth Mansfield and Steve Trafford, Hymn to Love will feature 13 of the French torch singer’s songs in new translations.
A co-production with York Theatre Royal and Theatre by the Lake, in association with Ensemble, Hymn to Love will play the London venue from 25 July until 18 August with a press night on 27 July.
Following on from her Olivier-nominated performance as music hall legend Marie Lloyd in Marie, Mansfield will star as Piaf in the tale of love and loss set in a Manhattan hotel as the singer prepares for her last concert.
York Theatre Royal’s artistic director Damian Cruden will take the helm of the production which features lighting by Andrew J Lindsay and sound by Yvonne Gilbert.
Hymn to Love will be the final production in Jermyn Street Theatre’s four-month The Reaction Season which includes the first complete London revival of Noël Coward’s cycle of one-act plays, Tonight at 8.30 since 1936.
Announcing the season, Jermyn Street’s artistic director Tom Littler, who will also direct Tonight at 8.30, said: “This is the most ambitious season in our 24-year history, and I am incredibly grateful to all of the people who have helped to set it up.
“I am very excited to be directing the whole of Noël Coward’s Tonight at 8.30 – in our intimate studio space, I think these plays can be revealed as works of extraordinary insight, wit, and emotional impact. Hymn to Love is not just a delight for any lover of Edith Piaf, it’s a serious piece of art in its own right, made with deep integrity and performed by the remarkable Elizabeth Mansfield.”
Angela Thomas
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