Genre-blending play ‘Kreutzer’ makes U.S. debut at Carbondale’s Thunder River Theatre

Genre-blending play ‘Kreutzer’ makes U.S. debut at Carbondale’s Thunder River Theatre

This weekend, the Thunder River Theatre Company (TRTC) and BenFeng Music Productions will present the U.S. premier of the innovative, genre-blending play “Kreutzer.” Fusing three historically connected works — Beethoven’s “Kreutzer Sonata” for violin, Leo Tolstoy’s novella “The Kreutzer Sonata” and Leoš Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata” — the play offers an immersive, multi-genre story of jealousy, betrayal, love and grief.  “I a…