Quantum Theatre

Mnemonic

Text Devised By Complicite
Directed by Karla Boos
July 5–July 28, 2013
LOCATION: Kirkwood Building, in East Liberty

Parlour Song

By Jez Butterworth
Directed by Martin Giles
November 1–November 24, 2013
LOCATION: TBA

Jez Butterworth won the Tony Award for Best Play for Jerusalem in 2012. But before that he wrote Parlour Song, which the Daily Telegraph said “combines the comic, the erotic, and the downright disconcerting with superb panache.” A suburban housing development is home to two friendly couples. But beneath the bland routine of affl uence, their illicit desires and painful memories prompt mysterious occurrences and downright eerie disappearances. Like John Updike, Butterworth compellingly shows us that suburbia breeds its own brands of melancholia and madness.

Madagascar

By J.T. Rogers
Directed by
Sheila McKenna
January 31–February 16, 2014
LOCATION: TBA

 If you choose to vanish, you owe your past nothing. A mystery, a ghost story, a memory play… At three different periods in time, three Americans fi nd themselves alone in the same hotel room overlooking Rome’s Spanish Steps: June, a young tour guide of the city’s ancient ruins; Lilian, her wealthy and elegant mother; and Nathan, a rumpled university economist who was best friend of Lilian’s deceased husband - another economist, a brilliant and famous one. Madagascar is the haunting story of a mysterious disappearance that changes these three lives forever.

Pantagleize

By Michel de Ghelderode; a new adaptation by
Jay Ball
Directed by
Jed Allen Harris
April 11–April 27, 2014
LOCATION: TBA

Pantagleize is a wild rumination on revolution; an explosion of theatricality fi rst produced in 1931 by Belgium’s great anticipator of the avant garde. Subtitled “A Farce to Make You Sad,” it takes its title from the central character, a philosopher-clown unwittingly involved with a cell of revolutionaries who take him for their leader. He robs a bank, falls in love, and goes head to head with forces far beyond his understanding. With Michel de Ghelderode’s gleefully ironic language and vibrant, Dickensian characters, there are no sacred cows and a new surprise greets every scene. Pantagleize’s darkly humorous attack on militarism continues to feel potent as the revolutions begun by the Arab spring continue, and as nations remain between a rock and a hard place.