World Premiere
The mode: Baroque assemblage, the best music of Handel, Vivaldi, Monteverdi, and others set with Shakespeare’s text, in English.
Artistic Director Karla Boos and Music Director Andres Cladera collaborate with Andrew Fouts, Patricia Halverson, and Scott Pauley of Chatham Baroque, with additional musical contributions by Justin Wallace. Attack Theatre provides choreography, and its four dancers join a cast of eleven singers and an all-period orchestra.
The world-class musicians include Baroque flutist Stephen Schultz, oboist Geoffrey Burgess, and Baritone David Newman in the role of Leontes. Designers Joe Seamans, Susan Tsu, Tony Ferrieri, and Todd Brown will go to town in a magnificent location: the 19th Century-style music hall at the top of the jewel in Downtown’s crown, the Union Trust Building.
SHOWTIMES
September 16 – October 3, 2015
Union Trust Building
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About the Experience
Once again Quantum Theatre is attracted to the late plays in Shakespeare’s canon, full of fantasy, paradox, the elegiac sense of life passing, and ultimately the redemptive power of love. A moment of jealousy and an act of anger lead to a lifetime of regret for Leontes, the rash king who destroys his family on a whim. But as time goes on, fate, love, and a few true friends are ready to work wonders to restore happiness to his world. In this late fairytale of Shakespeare, nothing is truly lost—certainly not love—if only we know where to seek it. The Winter’s Tale sweeps breathtakingly from tragedy to comedy and along the way visits kings and queens, dancing shepherds, a most extraordinary statue, and one notoriously hungry bear, before it reaches its stunning, magical conclusion.
Cast Members
Rebecca Belczyk
Perdita
Cosmo Clemens
Clown
Shannon Kessler Dooley
Camillo
Robert Frankenberry
Polixenes
Dan Kempson
Florizel
Gail Novak Mosites
Paulina
Andrey Nemzer
Autolycus
David Newman
Leontes
Eugene Perry
Antigonus
Katy Williams
Shepherdess
Raquel Winnica Young
Hermione
Musicians
Geoffrey Burgess, Oboe I
Andrew Fouts, Violin I
Patricia Halverson, Gamba
Matthew Hettinga, Viola
Sarah Huebsch, Oboe II
Scott Pauley, Theorbo
Dawn Posey, Violin II
Stephen Schultz, Flute
Justin Wallace, Harpsichord
Sue Yelanjian, Double Bass
Dancers
Kaitlin Dann
Dane Toney
Ashley Williams
Anthony Williams
The Winter’s Tale in the news
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CrossCurrents - Quantum Theatre’s production of “The Winter’s Tale” was surprisingly sumptuous, deftly moving beyond the gritty city adventures usually conjured up by artistic director Karla Boos. That doesn’t mean,…
Pittsburgh City Paper - This operatic adaptation of Shakespeare is exquisite. How time does fly when you’re having fun. Quantum Theatre celebrates its 25th anniversary — as does Chatham Baroque —…
Coal Hill Review - A little known fact in the Pittsburgh dance community is that Michele de la Reza, co-director of Attack Theatre, performed mime as her first stage experience.…
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Rest assured, the most famous Shakespearean stage direction is fully honored: “Exit, pursued by a bear.” Otherwise, Shakespeare is thoroughly, ambitiously remade in “The Winter’s Tale” by…
The Pittsburgh Tatler - The new adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale into a baroque opera by Karla Boos of Quantum Theatre, Patty Halverson, Scott Pauley, and Andrew Fouts of Chatham Baroque,…
Entertainment Central Pittsburgh - LSD is illegal and you don’t need to risk it. Just go see The Winter’s Tale. This Quantum Theatre presentation is hallucinogenic, hilarious, and, pardon the cliché, awesome.…
