All the Names

Pittsburgh City Paper - An inventive, site-specific adaptation views nostalgia and sorrow through an absurdist lens. All the Names is an adaptation of the eponymous José Saramago novel. The 1997 book…

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - A puzzle pursued in intriguing fits and starts, narration alternating with wordless installations, magic walls that write, a ceiling that speaks, characters doubled, the audience on the move ...…

The Pittsburgh Tatler - José Saramago’s All the Names is a mysterious and haunting novel. The story revolves around Senhor José, a timid, middle-aged, low-level civil servant in the densely bureaucratic “Central…

Tribune-Review - Quantum Theatre has chosen an apt setting for its production “All the Names.” The original, now decommissioned, Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny on what is now the North…

Brandon Getz: How did development on All The Names begin? Karla Boos: Barbara Luderowski said she was interested in doing something together, and this book seemed like it would provide…

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Karla Boos and Barbara Luderowski think so far out of the box, they are more inclined to first reimagine the box’s square shape, then see just how…

Tribune-Review - A group of risk-loving Pittsburgh artists are collaborating to transform a Nobel prize-winning novel into a piece of dramatic art. Quantum Theatre founder and artistic director Karla Boos…

Pittsburgh City Paper - All the Names to be staged in the old North Side Carnegie Library. Ever since she staged Knives in Hens in the Mattress Factory's basement, in…

 “The Central Registry,” an ominous recording explains as you walk into darkness, “is comprised of the card indexes and archives of the living…and the archives and card indexes of the…

NEXTpittsburgh - Much as it creatively mines Pittsburgh’s topography and built environments in search of the ideal setting for each production, Quantum Theatre also traverses world cultures and histories for compelling texts…