The Kreutzer Sonata

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Jealous passion and brutal sexual energy course just underneath the surface of The Kreutzer Sonata, now playing at La MaMa E.T.C.. But this production, which has come to New York from the U.K.'s Gate Theatre, also boasts a surprising, and thoroughly engaging delicacy and subtlety.

Carefully and gently adapted by Nancy Harris from Leo Tolstoy's novella of the same name, the piece centers on Pozdynyshev (Hilton McCrae), a man en route to a concert which he is loathe to attend.

As the train he is on wends its way through the Russian countryside, Pozdynyshev takes his travelling companions -- i.e. the audience -- into his confidence about his past, his dissolute days as a bachelor, and hi[...]