Novecento by Alessandro Baricco

Théâtre Artistic Athévains, 45 Bis rue Richard Lenoir

In the end, who is this Novecento? The music prodigy, an adopted orphan raised on a liner he never left, is the story of the last century, somewhat unbelievable to be sure; can we, in the end, form an idea of him?\n\nA trumpeter, Tim Tooney, tells us how he met an extraordinary jazz pianist aboard the Virginian, a true city of glass and steel launched headlong across the ocean. One can imagine the 1920s–30s, an imaginary Ellis Island: abandoned at birth on the liner where he was born, adopted by the crew, he…