Quantum Theatre

Twelfth Night

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Karla Boos
July 29–August 21, 2011
West Penn Hospital Foundation Research Facility

One of Shakespeare's best-beloved comedies. Viola asks “What country, friends, is this?” and we all go to Illyria…. Shakespeare gives his lovesick characters a prescription to know themselves better.

Staged outdoors in a placequirky even for us. It’s close – under Millvale Street in Bloomfield. It’s green. It’s summer in Pittsburgh. Robin Walsh stars as Olivia, the tender, foolish heiress-in-mourning, among a cast surpassing fair.

Land on these shores.

The End of the Affair

Adapted from
Graham Greene's novel,
by Karla Boos
Directed by Martin Giles
Show Times: Wed - Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm
October 6–October 30, 2011
Location: Former Emma Kaufmann Clinic in Polish Hill
No Late Seating, please arrive 15 mins early

Greene’s iconic novel of obsession. A passionate affair is set against the backdrop of the London Blitz. The End of the Affair is about the impossibility of knowing someone, the ways we order our morality, and the pacts we make with chimeras.

Boos’ world premiere adaptations have included The Human Chair, The Red Shoes, and The Howling Miller. Giles' sensitive direction created last season's When the Rain Stops Falling.

Watch love burn.

Fat Beckett

By Gab Cody in collaboration with
Rita Reis
Directed by Sam Turich
December 1–December 18, 2011

Location: Old School House

A sly, decidedly female response to the great Samuel Beckett’s men who wait. Two heroines are on a whirlwind journey of time-and-space-travel in search of their beloved goat, Biquette.

Pittsburgh incubates talent, as this fertile collaboration by two local artists and one visiting Portuguese exemplifies. See Fat Beckett here before it tours the world.

‘Stop. Here’s the place.’

The Electric Baby

By Stefanie Zadravec
Directed by Daniella Topol
March 29–April 22, 2012
Waldorf School of Pittsburgh

The Baby is fragile yet powerful. His tale of urban folklore connects his Romanian mother and his Nigerian father with colorful Americans in Pittsburgh, PA.

Zadravec’s prize-winning play about people from besieged corners of the globe, Honey Brown Eyes, brought her to national prominence. The Electric Baby reflects time she spent in Pittsburgh. Quantum unites her with director Daniella Topol, whose artistic start at Carnegie Mellon University and City Theatre preceded the impact she now makes across the country developing new plays.

Broadcast his glow.