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Piaf to play at Donmar Warehouse

Event: Piaf at Donmar Warehouse, Camden
Date: August 8th until September 20th 2008

Donmar Warehouse in Camden is launching an exciting new production this summer, in which it attempts to explore the life and loves of famed French singer Edith Piaf.

Born Edith Giovanna Gassion, the cultural icon sang songs that reflected her personal life, the most famous of which guests staying at luxury hotel the Montague on the Gardens may be familiar with, such as La Vie en Rose and Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien.

Nicknamed la mome piaf - or the little sparrow - Piaf's childhood and later life is a story which is as moving as her legendary vocals.

Guests attending the production by Pam Gems from luxury hotel the Montague can relive the "glamour and squalor" of the fragile and yet enigmatic icon's life.

Born during wartime France in 1915, Piaf lived an unorthodox street life, losing her only child to meningitis at the age of two and being "miraculously" healed from blindness following a pilgrimage that was paid for by prostitutes working in the Normandy brothel where she lived.

Piaf succumbed to the ills of drink and drugs following a number of car accidents and eventually died of liver cancer before reaching her 50th birthday.

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