THE KREUTZER SONATA - PRESS REVIEWS
THE TELEGRAPH Charles Spencer
“it grips like a Hitchcock thriller, delivering its twists and nasty surprises with superb panache”
“Nancy Harris’s English adaptation combines icy precision with mordant wit, while director Natalie Abrahami’s 80-minute production ratchets up the tension with cruel assurance.”
“Chloe Lamford’s evocative railway carriage design, cleverly lit by Mark Howland and with hypnotic locomotive sound effects by Carolyn Downing, all help create the spell of a night journey hurtling towards a domestic hell.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/6539279/The-Kreutzer-Sonata-at-Gate-Theatre--review.html
THE GUARDIAN - Michael Billington
“McRae, for his part, endows the hero with an unsettling confessional intimacy... It is a fine performance in which McRae takes us inside the hero's disordered, guilt-ridden mind”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/nov/11/michael-billington-review
TIME OUT - Caroline McGinn
“Nancy Harris's adaptation and McCrae's intimate performance are unfailingly sensitive”
http://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/event/164223/the-kreutzer-sonata
EVENING STANDARD - Henry Hitchings
“Nancy Harris’s adaptation, crisp and emotionally intelligent, conveys the power of Tolstoy’s original”
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23767865-music-and-menace-in-the-kreutzer-sonata.do
WHAT'S ON STAGE - Michael Coveney
“an absolutely riveting ninety minutes, with McRae giving the performance of his career”
http://www.whatsonstage.com/reviews/theatre/london/E8831257934203/The +Kreutzer+Sonata.html
THE INDEPENDENT - Paul Taylor
“Natalie Abrahami's pitch-perfect production”
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/the-kreutzer-sonata-gate-theatre-london-1818832.html
THE TIMES - Benedict Nightingale
"This excellent actor convinces you that a gently smiling man, whom you’d expect to have contentious views only about the weather, can harbour horrors within”
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/ theatre/article6912605.ece
BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE - Philip Fisher
“The Kreutzer Sonata is a well-conceived production that deserves to be a sell-out success, thanks to its thought-provoking, timeless storyline and marvellous production qualities”
http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/kreutzer-rev.htm
FINANCIAL TIMES - Philip Fisher
“A fine performance in an intelligent production”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7886ffba-cfaf-11de-a36d-00144feabdc0.html
THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY - Claudia Pritchard
“This miniature tour de force is gripping theatre, a poisonous extract distilled from Tolstoy's original creation and thrillingly performed”
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/mixed-up-north-wiltons-music-hall-londonbrthe-kreutzer-sonata-gate-notting-hill-london-1820741.html
OTHER REVIEWS
http://thepublicreviews.blogspot.com/2009/11/kreutzer-sonata-gate-theatre-london.html
http://www.theatreguidelondon.co.uk/reviews/kreutzer09.htm
http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/features/view/item108201/The-Kreutzer-Sonata/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/nov/15/mixed-up-north-kreutzer-shraddha
http://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/event/164223/the-kreutzer-sonata