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IN `KREUTZER,' INSIGHT AMID MADNESS, MUSIC

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20050106
Author:Ed Siegel, Globe Staff

LOWELL By the time Leo Tolstoy wrote "The Kreutzer Sonata," he was demented, probably dysfunctional, and, like all religious fundamentalists, more than a bit demonic.

He was also still a genius, which is why the work has a hold over our imagination and which is presumably why Larry and Margaret Pine chose to adapt it as a mostly solo theater piece, with Larry in the lead and Margaret composing most of the music, with help from Ludwig van Beethoven, whose sonata drove Tolstoy to write the book of the same name.

The result, receiving its world premiere at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre, is a ...

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