Brahman/i

Karla Boos, artistic director   Though Karla Boos built Quantum Theatre to experiment, intersections formed fertile ground for that experimentation: where performance meets unconventional space, where art meets community, where theatre meets real-life.  The company’s…

Pittsburgh City Paper - The most remarkable part of Brahman/i is the multi-faceted performance of Sanjiv Jhaveri. The first problem in writing about Quantum Theatre's production of Brahman/i is the pesky pronoun.…

NakYouOut - Last Friday was the opening night of Quantum Theatre’s Brahman/i, a one-hijra stand up comedy show (by definition, a hijra refers to an individual born with both male and female genitalia).…

Entertainment Central Pittsburgh - Have you heard the one about the tectonic plates? Early in Quantum Theatre’s new play—which is staged as a nightclub comedy act—the comedian, an Indian-American named…

Tribune-Review - You never know where Quantum Theatre will turn up next or what it will produce. But it's always a sure bet that it will be a production that…

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Start with a 9-year-old Indian-American child, add teen angst, Hindu theology, tectonic plates, the history of Stonehenge a la Monty Python, colonial and sexual oppression and Galileo’s…

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - It's par for the course for stand-up comedians: riff on their ethnicity, share life experiences, morph into characters and generally work out the question, "Where do I…

Tribune-Review - A community center in Friendship becomes a kitschy comedy club, while a stand-up comedy routine offers a hilarious exploration of identity and acceptance in Quantum Theatre's production of…

Brahman/i is a play about the spaces in between. Conflicting identities, transformations, trying on different skins until one finally feels like it fits. A play about the process of becoming,…

Onstage: instead of an altar, a lascivious leather loveseat. Instead of a choir, a Casio. At the opposite end of the sanctuary, shelves of liquor bottles glow disco colors, and…