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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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