Collaborators

Pittsburgh City Paper - By turns hilarious and sinister, and sometimes both at once, Collaborators is an exceptionally engaging evening of theater. Playwright John Hodge’s satiric drama imagines an almost-plausible 1930s...

‘Burgh Vivant – Mike “Buzz” Buzzelli reviews COLLABORATORS by John Hodge at Quantum Theatre, directed by Jed Allen Harris, through April 30th, 2017. For tickets and more information, visit www.quantumtheatre.com. ‘Burgh Vivant films weekly at Point Park University’s Center for Media Innovation in beautiful downtown Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh Quarterly - Risky theatre in an old warehouse. Just as Colette could say, “There are no ordinary cats,” one could say that there are no ordinary productions from Quantum...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Whizz! Bang! It’s off to the races with a comic chase scene, our hero pursued by an unmistakable Josef Stalin, one of the all-time monsters in the...

Pittsburgh City Paper - A surreal 2011 comedy now has new political resonances. Sometimes reality has a way of catching up to art. Quantum Theatre has been eyeing John Hodge’s Collaborators for...

Entertainment Central Pittsburgh - Collaborators, currently at Quantum Theatre, is by the British writer John Hodge. He is best known as the screenwriter for the two Trainspotting movies, and this play is...

The Pittsburgh Tatler - There’s a diabolically funny moment in the first act of Collaborators: Josef Stalin (played with demonic relish by Martin Giles), having summoned playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (Tony Bingham) to...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - “Trainspotting” writer John Hodge has mined a nugget of Russian history to address art vs. tyranny in “Collaborators,” a surrealist play about the time dissident writer Mikhail...

Tribune-Review - The opening scene of “Collaborators” sets the tone of this black comedy: Russian playwright Mikhail Bulgakov and his wife are in bed, sleeping. There's a knocking that slowly...

NEXTpittsburgh – Audiences will be the first in the US to see Quantum’s highly anticipated premiere of the Olivier Award-winning play, Collaborators.

Penned by John Hodge—best known for his screenplay for the hit film Trainspotting—Collaborators made its world premiere at London’s Royal National Theatre in 2011.

In the surreal world of Collaborators, the lives of the dissident Russian playwright Mikhail Bulgakov and the ruthless Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin are mysteriously intertwined.