The Kreutzer Sonata least next door to hating humanity, for you pity humanity because it is human." "The Kreutzer Sonata" has been adapted for film well over a dozen times. Some of these include: The novella, inspired by Beethoven's music, in turn gave rise to Leoš Janáček's First String Quartet. In 2000, the Carolina Ballet, with original choreography by Robert Weiss and combining the music of Beethoven, Janáček, and J. Mark Scearce, mounted an innovative production combining dance and drama, with a narrator/actor telling the story and flashbacks leading into the ballet segments. The novella inspired the 1901 painting "Kreutzer Sonata" by René
Sonata (play) 2008. In January 2010, it was also staged at the British Council auditorium in Dhaka and co-produced by Tara Arts, the British Council and International Theatre Institute, Bangladesh. In 2017, Aparna Sen adapted the play into a Bengali feature film of same name, starring Sen, Shabana Azmi, and Lillete Dubey. Sonata (play) Sonata is a one-act play by Indian playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar about friendship between three women. "Sonata" is about three single working women, living in Mumbai, a journalist, a teacher of Sanskrit and one employed in a big post in a multinational. They share a life of solidarity and