Room of Keys: Interview on barczablog

In advance of the premiere of Room of Keys staring Adam Sherkin, I got the chance to converse with Leslie Barcza who does the tireless work of writing and championing arts & culture, with a focus on the music and opera, through his barczablog.

It’s been nice to get to do a couple of interviews for this show, which people are right to ask…so what is it? I think I’ve landed on the idea that it’s a “one act play leading into a piano recital” though perhaps that will change once the audiences start to come (April 9, 10, 11 at Toronto’s nanoSTAGE; April 16 at Toronto’s Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre).

I’m never comfortable with talking too much about a piece before it runs (to explain it) or after it runs (to justify it), but I also know it honours the hard work collaborators are putting in. In this case, director Tom Diamond and Adam, who performs the role of Greenie before playing a recital of Bartok compositions (and a new one of his own) in character…but we’ll know it’s Adam, right?

I appreciated the mix of promotional questions and fun questions that Leslie asks to get to know the show in questions but the artists who make the thing…

To read the whole article (and more of Leslie’s coverage), visit barczablog.com