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.
"Nancy Harris’s English adaptation combines icy precision with mordant wit…" - Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
"Nancy Harris’s crisp and emotionally intelligent adaptation conveys the power of the Tolstoy original….. The experience of Harris’s play is a jolt to the system, a journey into the pathology of suspicion and self-loathing" - Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard
"An extraordinarily compelling adaptation of Tolstoy’s great, warped novella." - Paul Taylor, Independent
"Tolstoy’s sensational 1889 novella has been dashingly adapted by Nancy Harris – she can wield a knife as precisely as Pozdynyshev." - Kate Kellaway, Observer
Press Comment:
“Though this “Kreutzer Sonata” hews to the shape and plot of the original, Ms. Harris has given it a wry, worldly, distinctly British flavor” – New York Times
Male Cast:
1
Published:
Oct 2009
Binding:
PaperBack
Page extent:
64
ISBN: 9781840029680
£9.99
