Quantum Theatre

Cymbeline

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Karla Boos
Outdoors in Mellon Park

Is it a comedy, a tragedy, a romance?  Like Quantum, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline breaks the rules and doesn't care. At its heart is a journey of broken families and characters struggling through dense fog to emerge whole. Cymbeline is a tale about where we come from, who we are, and how we find our way home. Written late in Shakespeare’s life, this is a highly theatrical, no-holds Bard, with a cross-dressing heroine, Machiavellian villains, corrupt courts, regenerating countries, tyrannical kings, long-lost children, a wicked queen, star-crossed lovers ... and a Deus Ex Machina that resolves a plot with more ricochets than 'Desperate Housewives.'

Quantum’s 'Machina' comes with a special, local twist— a high-tech, outdoor design that includes collaboration by the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.

Previews and Reviews

Caution: Robotic Technology at Work
Davi Napolean, Live Design, November 19, 2008

On Stage: Cymbeline
By Michelle Pikecki, Pittsburgh City Paper, August 7, 2008

Stage Review: Quantum’s Take on Cymbeline Lively and Elegant
By Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 6, 2008

Shakespeare’s Cymbeline is a Machine of Sorts—Or so Proposes Quantum Theatre
By Paul Ruggiero, Pittsburgh City Paper, July 31, 2008

Quantum Clicks Gears with Robot 250
By Adrian McCoy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 31, 2008

Quantum Mechanics: ‘Cymbeline,’ Shakespeare’s Tale of Comedy, Tragedy, Love and ... Robots?
By Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 31, 2008

Complex Classic Meets Robotic Complexity
By Alice T. Carter, Tribune Review, July 27, 2008

The Invasion of the BigBots
By Debra Smit, PopCity, June 25, 2008

The Museum of Desire and Flowers in a Corner

From short stories by John Berger
Directed by Dan Jemmett, Devised by the company 404 Strand
Frick Art & Historical Center

John Berger is an elder statesman of the art world—critic, painter, and Booker Prize-winning author. He entrusts his short stories The Museum of Desire and Flowers in a Corner to director Dan Jemmett for translation into a unique theatrical premiere. Quantum stages this multi-dimensional experience at the Frick Art & Historical Center, a setting that perfectly evokes desire. Jemmett’s devised production places viewers in the hands of a surreal museum guide, who seduces with a private collection of fantastical objects and a promise of immortality.

Previews and Reviews

Quantum Theatre’s Museum of Desire
By Bill O'Driscoll, Pittsburgh City Paper, November 24, 2008

The Museum of Desire
By Robert Isenberg, Pittsburgh City Paper, November 13, 2008

Art, music, Audience Objects of Quantum’s ‘Museum of Desire’
By Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 12, 2008

Frick Hosts Meditation on Art in ‘Desire’
By Alice T. Carter, Tribune Review, November 11, 2008

Quantum Theatre offers a variety of art in ‘Museum of Desire’
By Alice T. Carter, Tribune Review, November 6, 2008

Theater in the Galleries: Quantum debuts Museum of Desire & Flowers in a Corner at the Frick
Pop City, November 5, 2008

Notes From Underground
By Leah Hager Cohen, New York Times Book Review, November 2, 2008

The Museum of Desire
By Sarah Hall, Frick Art & Historical Center, October 28, 2008

Mouth to Mouth

By Kevin Elyot
Ronald Allan-Lindblom
121 Seventh Street in the Cultural District

The homecoming of a son. The reunion of two brothers. A life-threatening illness. A friendship more powerful than a marriage. Frank has made a surrogate family of Laura’s, safe in the refuge of her domesticity. But when does intimacy become betrayal? What’s unforgivable among friends? This brilliantly acerbic tragic-comedy exposes the pretension and narcissism of ‘people like us’ with unerring and hilarious accuracy. Kevin Elyot is winner of Britain’s Evening Standard and Olivier Awards for Best Comedy. His plays Mouth to Mouth and acclaimed earlier work My Night With Reg premiered at London’s Royal Court Theatre.

Previews and Reviews

Quantum Theatre Finally Gets Its Shot at ‘Mouth to Mouth’
Scott Mervis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 29, 2009
 

Quantum’s Mouth to Mouth Packs a Punch
Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 3, 2009
No One Listens in ‘Mouth to Mouth’
Alice T. Carter, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, February 3, 2009

 Quantum Theatre stages ‘Mouth to Mouth’
Alice T. Carter, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, January 29, 2009

Quantum Theatre brings Olivier Award-nominated drama to Downtown’s Cultural District
Pop City, January 28, 2009

Yerma

By Federico Garcia Lorca
Directed by Melanie Dreyer
6000 Penn Avenue

Yerma is a deeply musical folktale, blending song and poetic text into a modern story of unbridled yearning. Feel the rhythm of many generations of a rural Spanish community as a lone woman wields the forces of the earth against a man-made fate.

Quantum unites this 20th century classic with the irrepressible art of flamenco, performed by Cihtli Ocampo and Ethan Margolis, members of the renowned Arte y Pureza from Seville, Spain. Media artists Carolina Loyola-Garcia, who enlivened Quantum’s Red Shoes in 2007, and Jose Muniain collaborate to create an innovative setting of projected, moving images to tell a story of unrelenting passion.

Previews and Reviews

You Won’t Escape the Grip of Quantum’s ‘Yerma’
By Anna Rosenstein, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 6, 2009

Quantum Theatre Offers a Compelling ‘Yerma’
By Alice Carter, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, April 7, 2009

Quantum Theatre Tackles Federico Garcia Lorca’s earthy Yerma
Bill O'Driscoll, Pittsburgh City Paper, April 2, 2009

Flamenco Taps into Characters’ Emotions
Alice Carter, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, April 1, 2009