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Informationen zum Autor Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is one of Russia's greatest novelists and a social dramatist who rejected his upbringing as a member of the nobility. He regarded the theatre in particular as a means of education the populace away from the moral degeneracy, brought about by the squalor of Russian peasant life. Nancy Harris is from Dublin, where her comedy No Romance was a huge hit for the Abbey Theatre in 2011. Klappentext A play about death, desire and Beethoven. 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. Written in 1889, Leo Tolstoy's novella became instantly notorious, and was banned in both Russia and America. Tolstoy hoped one day to see it performed to the accompaniment of live music. In this adaptation by Nancy Harris, musicians and actors come together to bring the story to life for the stage. "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" Zusammenfassung British playwright Nancy Harris adapts Leo Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata, for the stage. This play about death, desire and Beethoven opened to great acclaim before transferring to Broadway.
