Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humor; even more so a sense of freedom. Dissident playwright Mikhail Bulgakov has both, despite being stalked by the secret police. Inspired by historical fact, Collaborators embarks on a surreal journey into the fevered imagination of the writer after he’s offered a poisoned chalice in exchange for freedom: write a play glorifying Stalin to celebrate his sixtieth birthday.
Jed Allen Harris reassembles his amazing design team from an acclaimed Quantum work circa 2010: The Task’s Narelle Sissons, Susan Tsu, C. Todd Brown, and Joe Pino.
SHOWTIMES
April 6 – 30, 2017
6500 Hamilton Avenue, behind Bakery Square
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Cast Members
Tony Bingham
Mikhail Bulgakov
Ken Bolden
Vladimir
Martin Giles
Joseph Stalin
Dana Hardy
Yelena
Nancy McNulty
Praskovya
Dylan Meyers
Sergei
Joe Rittenhouse
Stepan
John Shepard
Doctor
Mark Stevenson
Vasilly
Olivia Vadnais
Anna
Jonathan Visser
Grigory
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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…
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…
