The Kreutzer Sonata

The Mainstage Series

Meet Pozdynyshev, an enigmatic stranger in a smoky rail car, weaving a tale of love, loss and betrayal. Hear his sensuous wife playing piano while his old friend plays violin, the Kreutzer Sonata between them, powerful and evocative. Was this music the soundtrack to their illicit passion, or has Pozdynyshev made a terrible mistake? Irish playwright Nancy Harris has transformed Tolstoy’s classic novella, inspired by this oft-played sonata, into a theatrical experience you’ll not soon forget.

Based upon the novella by Leo Tolstoy

May 30 -June 22

Pittsburgh Premiere | Directed by Alan Stanford

Henry Heymann Theatre inside the Stephen Foster Memorial, 4301 Forbes Avenue, Oakland

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Reviews

"[Kreutzer] Sonata plays to Giles' mercurial strengths, switching moods and tones in a blink... Heavy serious ideas — worth chewing on — leavened with the occasional levity."

Michelle Pilecki, City Paper

"In this single-actor short play, the ever-interesting Martin Giles creates Pozdynyshev as a self-centered, entitled aristocrat who reveals far more than he thinks while explaining events from his point of view... Giles, a veteran of several single-performer dramas, has a narrator's talent for making these characters and events come alive."

Alice T. Carter, Pittsburgh Tribune review

"Within the telling, [Giles] eloquently illuminates the moments of tenderness and makes charming the flashes of humor without ever going off-track. Equally he makes dynamically clear those times of mind-altering anger and disillusionment about how a seemingly ideal life is bound to fall into disarray."

Gordon Spencer, WRCT