"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." Daily Telegraph
"Hilton McRae...expertly understated portrayal of a man who is both a bracing radical thinker and a quietly twisted monomaniac" Independent
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THE KREUTZER SONATA
By LEO TOLSTOY
Adapted by NANCY HARRIS
Now extended until 19 DECEMBER 2009
A man boards a train: the confined space of the carriage triggers potent memories. Soon he is confessing to a terrible crime, one for which he holds Beethoven’s KREUTZER SONATA responsible.
In 1889, Leo Tolstoy wrote a short story which became instantly notorious. He hoped one day to see it performed to the accompaniment of live music - but it was not to be.
Over a century later musicians and actors come together to bring the story to life for the stage.
A new play about death, desire and Beethoven.
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