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Klaipėda Youth Theater | Kreicer's Sonata

Staging based on Leo Tolstoy's short story "The Kreutzer Sonata"

Some consider Leo Tolstoy's short story "The Kreutzer Sonata" to be his best work, while others disagree with the ideas expressed in it. This scandalous work combines passionate love, jealousy, and social criticism.

On the train, a conversation begins about love, the status of women, family conflicts, and violence. After remaining silent for a long time, the passenger opens up about his unhappy marriage. He married a much younger woman who captivated him with her youthful beauty and innocence. They had five children. However, the man is disappointed in love and marriage because there is a lot of strife, arguments, and discord in the couple's relationship. He admits that, overcome with jealousy and hatred because of his wife's close relationship and music-making with a violinist, he kills her.

The confession of a man who murdered his wife is recounted by Russian literary classic Leo Tolstoy in his novella "The Kreutzer Sonata." Balancing between feminism and misogyny, the writer touches on several relevant topics: family relationships, gender equality, love, passion, and violence. The published novella caused an international scandal due to its ideas about marriage and family values – it was banned in both Russia and the US.

Kreicerio sonata, which explores human relationships, love, sex, jealousy, and paranoia, is being revived on the stage of the Klaipėda Youth Theater. The story depicts the conflict between sexual desire and moral constraints, raising questions that are often left unspoken, unanswered, or impossible to answer.

Author/Director of the staging: Valentinas Masalskis

Actors: Simonas Lunevičius, Vaiva Kvedaravičiūtė

Set designer: Renata Valčik

Lighting designer: Julius Kuršis

Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes.

Age rating: N-18

Latecomers will not be admitted to the performance!