Reviewed by James Wilkinson
August Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata. Performances run October 6th through 14th. Thursday/Friday/Saturday at 8pm. Durrell Theatre at Cambridge Family YMCA, 820 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA Tickets: $20, Students, seniors and Stagesource members: $14. For tickets call 800.838.3006 or visit www.fortpointtheatrechannel.org
It’s best, I think, to drop any notions you may have about narrative structure before walking into August Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata. This is a play that’s going to shatter each of those notions right before your eyes. Kudos to Fort Point Theatre Channel for having the nerve to take on this twisty puzzle box of a play. It is fascinating to have all of the play’s secrets and mysteries unfold in front of you until you turn around and realize you’re enveloped. If you have the chance to catch this production, now playing at the Durell Theater at the Cambridge Family YMCA, perhaps you’ll spend the whole evening, (as I did), with one eyebrow perpetually cocked as you silently repeat the phrase, “Wait…what?”
