Quantum Theatre - Past Productions - 2007

2007–2008 Productions

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

World Premiere

From the award-winning book of poems by Michael Ondaatje
Directed by Dan Jemmett
The Garden Theatre

Notorious teenage gunslinger Billy the Kid is re-imagined by two of today’s most legendary storytellers. This new play explores the man behind the myth, and chronicles a world where peace and violence, sanity and insanity, order and chaos, are inextricably confused. Quantum unveiled this world premiere at Pittsburgh’s infamous Garden Theatre before the company traveled to Madrid’s Festival de Otoño.

Previews and Reviews

'Billy The Kid' Is Renegade Theater

By Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Thursday, June 21, 2007

Bottoms Up: The World Premiere Of Billy The Kid Turns Traditional Theater On Its Head

By Bill O'Driscoll, Pittsburgh City Paper, Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Former House Of Porn Becomes The Refuge For Billy The Kid

By Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Thursday, June 14, 2007

Quantum Stages 'Wake' For Famed Outlaw Billy The Kid

By Alice T. Carter, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Thursday, June 14, 2007

Former X-Rated Garden Theatre Set For A Porn-Free Play

By Bonnie Pfister, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Monday, June 11, 2007

Former North Side Porn Theater Awaits Restoration As A Possible Arts Space

By Timothy McNulty, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sunday, May 20, 2007

Breakfast With Mugabe

by Fraser Grace
Piatt Place

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe finds himself stalked by a malevolent spirit in the midst of an engineered election and haunted by the racial discord of the Colonial country he once liberated. A white psychiatrist could help him. But personal and political agendas collide in this contemporary thriller filled with paranoia, corruption and a deadly struggle for control.

Previews and Reviews

Haunting 'Breakfast With Mugabe' Satisfies

By Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Wednesday, February 13, 2008

'Mugabe' Provides Much To Consider

By Alice T. Carter, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Evil Spirits, African Politics And A Highly Anticipated Role For Local Actor Don Marshall Spark Quantum Theatre's Breakfast With Mugabe

By Bill O'Driscoll, Pittsburgh City Paper, Wednesday, February 6, 2008

The Drama Of Politics

By Alice T. Carter, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Sunday, February 3, 2008

Quantum Play Sits Down With Zimbabwe Dictator Mugabe

By Dan Simpson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Thursday, February 7, 2008

Thérèse Raquin

by Emile Zola
The swimming pool at the Braddock Carnegie Library

Emile Zola’s classic tale of passion and betrayal surfaced in the basement of the Braddock Library. A painter, his secret lover and her mother-in-law, trapped in a world of their own design, play a claustrophobic game of self-destructive desire.

Previews and Reviews

'Therese Raquin' Flows On Pool Stage

By Anna Rosenstein, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Wednesday, October 3, 2007

'Therese Raquin' Submerges Audience In Taut Drama

By Alice T. Carter, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Director Pursues Full Life With Quantum, Point Park

By Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sunday, September 30, 2007

Going Deep

By Alice T. Carter, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Thursday, September 27, 2007

Le Grand Meaulnes

Adapted by Nigel Gearing
The Stables at Hartwood Acres

As a young man, charismatic Augustin Meaulnes meets the woman who will consume him, at a place magical enough to be conjured from boyhood dreams. His journey to adulthood summons our bittersweet recollections of the romantic fantasies we never outgrow. The idyllic landscape of a century ago was brought extravagantly to life in the stunning summer ambiance of The Stables at Hartwood Acres.