Piano Man show by London theatre company AllthePigs is to tour again
15:00, 28 April 2015
updated: 15:44, 28 April 2015
A play about the Piano Man, a mysterious stranger who brought global attention to Sheppey after he was discovered wandering on a beach, is touring again.
London theatre company AllthePigs adapted the true story, from August 2005, of a young man wearing a suit with no labels found sopping wet on Sheerness seafront, apparently unable to speak.
He was taken to Medway Maritime Hospital, Gillingham, where he was given a piece of paper and drew a sketch of a grand piano.
When he played a piano in the hospital chapel, staff thought he must have been a professional musician.
The story was covered by news organisations around the world, but he later slipped into obscurity after he was identified as 20-year-old German Andreas Grassl.
The play debuted in London in November and started touring earlier this month.
More dates are upcoming for Marlowe Studio in Canterbury on May 7 and at the Other Place as part of the Brighton Fringe from May 22 to 25.
