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COPYRIGHT 2007 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
Mrs. K. (Elizabeth Franz) is an elderly widow whose powerful, selective memory is cluttered to the rafters. And since she is, for the most part, the central force in Julia Cho's well-written "The Piano Teacher" (at the Vineyard), we have to take her word for almost everything--at first. This isn't terribly difficult to do, given that Mrs. K. has such a lovely, seductive voice: it sounds like a flute floating above the babbling brook of her various reminiscences.
Sporting a pink cardigan and sensible shoes, Mrs. K. pads around her doll-delicate parlor. She doesn't have much to do, now that her husband has gone on to his glory, and she no longer offers the piano lessons that kept her occupied for a time. Munching on cookies or chocolates, watching TV, and chatting with the audience are the amiable Mrs. K.'s pastimes now. "People assume I must eat like a horse," she says near the start of the play. But she's being a little disingenuous--she's as slight as a wren. Mrs. K. adds, "Everything I eat becomes quite attached to me, so that even if all I eat is a very small piece of chocolate, well, then, that little piece of chocolate will stay with me, become part of...
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