Quantum Theatre

The Howling Miller

By Arto Paasilinna, adapted by
Peter Duschenes and Karla Boos
Directed by Peter Duschenes
July 29–August 22, 2010
Outdoors, Frick Environmental Center

A land of unending dark and unconquerable light.
A stranger, larger-than-life and with species in question.
Part hero, part howler, he's a man, a myth, and a metaphor.

A world premiere.  A grand experiment and a step into the unknown, to inaugurate our 20th anniversary.

A fable about a fierce little country - Lapland in the post-war years - told in a secluded outdoor corner of our city.  Ordinary nature by day, brought to howling life by night...

...in the summer of 2010.

When the Rain Stops Falling

By Andrew Bovell
Directed by Martin Giles
October 28–November 21, 2010
Location to be announced

And Gabriel opens his mouth and screams.
And a fish falls from the sky.
And a woman falls to her knees in the street.
And it still smelt of the sea.

Seven people trapped on repeat.  Bewildered, abandoned, in a constant downpour, they share a story that stretches from a claustrophobic London flat in 1959 to the coast of southern Australia in 2039.  A family epic...

...in the fall of 2010.

Maria de Buenos Aires

Music by Astor Piazzolla
Libretto by Horacio Ferrer
Music direction by Andres Cladera
Stage direction by Karla Boos
March 24–April 17, 2011
Location to be announced

Now is the Hour.
The passion, the power, the pulse...
Maria and her ghost will tell you
Every night the tango dies, to rise again in Las Pampas.

A meltdown of Latin sensuality.  A tango operita from the streets of Buenos Aires...

...in the spring of 2011.