The Fugue Code
Playwrights' Theatre
Sunday, September 9, 2007 4:30pm
A kidnapping. Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier. A secret society. A "perfect" temperament pipe organ designed by Bach but not built until present day technology made it possible. A code hidden within Bach's music. These are the ingredients for this remarkable one man musicological comedy-thriller.
Actor/writer Alex Eddington performs the large cast of characters at a breakneck pace. His characterizations are well distinguished which is fortunate as concentration is required to follow the convoluted plot.
The play is an intricate puzzle-box based on Bach's Fugue No. 24 in B Minor. Everything from the structure of the play to the cast of characters is drawn from the music. Numerological secrets abound like the number 14 (B=2 + A=1 + C=3 + H=8 = 14).
An organist's wife is kidnapped by a secret society known as SMW. Her release can only be secured if he can solve the Fugue Code. He enlists the help of his colleagues a musicologist, a conductor, and a singer who is a descendant of J.S. Bach. What they discover as they unravel the code reveals a plot more sinister and earth-shattering than a simple kidnapping.
Highly recommended for music fans, conspiracy theorists, Dan Brown fans, and everyone who likes a funny, fast-paced thriller.
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