“[Strindberg Cycle is] off to a solid start with “The Ghost Sonata.” [Paul] Walsh’s translation feels smooth and fluid, and Rob Melrose directs the melodramatic and at times symbolic material in a style somewhere between… Read more »

“San Francisco’s Cutting Ball Theater is doing a remarkable thing.” “The Ghost Sonata” is…thoroughly compelling…often surreal and dreamlike, with several long, poetic speeches, it’s given great immediacy and emotional gravity by Melrose’s sharp staging and… Read more »

“…the chamber plays are works of a new era, and for a new era, and The Ghost Sonata… As darkly shadowed as The Ghost Sonata is, its formal invention is full of air and light to remake the stage… Read more »

“[Strindberg Cycle is] a big project for any theater company. In one of the few American contributions to the international centennial of Strindberg’s death, Artistic Director Rob Melrose is staging all five of the seminal… Read more »

“Watching August Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata at Cutting Ball Theater, it becomes clear that without Strindberg, we probably would not have the wonderfully weird worlds of Samuel Beckett or Harold Pinter or Edward Albee or, in the… Read more »