Christine Bovill: Piaf Revisited

The Paris icon and the Glasgow girl.

This is not a tribute show! Christine Bovill established her reputation as “one of Europe’s finest interpreters of French song” with her smash-hit Piaf. With a fresh take on this self-penned work, she now returns with Piaf Revisited, looking back on her remarkable journey, At the heart of the story is a young Glasgow girl, reluctant in school French until she heard NO REGRETS. Her journey is interwoven with Edith Piaf‘s life and those incredible songs.

An award-winning songwriter in her own right, Bovill has toured throughout Europe and the Far East with her self-penned homage to the Little Sparrow, appearing on BBC Newsnight and on BBC Radio 4’s series, Soul Music. Her own compositions have appeared in film and TV. During her Edinburgh Fringe sell-out run at the Famous Speigeltent, she shared the stage with Charles Dumont, great friend of Piaf and, most famously, composer of Non, Je ne Regrette Rien. Validation for her work didn’t come much higher. Becoming ‘the stuff of Fringe legend’ (BroadwayBaby.com), Piaf Revisited stirs in the eternal Parisian tangle of passion and pain.

“Something that will stay with you for the rest of your life” – Sunday Times

“If you love music, and you want to experience something extraordinary, then run, fly, race to book your ticket immediately.” – Edinburgh Festival Magazine

“Bovill’s incarnation of Piaf is too astonishingly perfect, her voice tails off delicately like a spider’s thread to devastating effect” – Fest Mag