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Day: 7 May, 2019

The Glass Piano, Coronet Theatre

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By an anonymous guest critic

Alix Sobler’s new play is a full-length fairy tale based on the true case of Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, born in 1826, who convinced herself that as a child she had swallowed a full-size, glass, grand piano.

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