Tony-winner Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem) has delivered a poetic and haunting next play. The River is part mystery, part gothic thriller, and 100% homage to the art of trout fishing. A man has brought a new girlfriend to a remote cabin in the woods, by a river. So far, so straightforward, but the metaphors stack up, revealing what’s hidden there beside the real people in front of us and that real trout they’re going to have for supper.
SHOWTIMES
October 7 – 30, 2016
Aspinwall Riverfront Park
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Cast Members
Siovhan
Christensen
Daina Michelle
Griffith
Andrew William
Smith
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Pittsburgh Quarterly - In Richard Brautigan’s classic surrealist novel, Trout Fishing In America, the narrator visits a store selling trout streams by the foot. They are stacked in piles like pieces of…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - On its base level, “The River” is about a sports fanatic — in this case, fly fishing — whose passions don’t translate well with women. In Quantum…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Theater crowds of the past marveled at the sensation of reality when a chandelier or helicopter dropped from the ceiling. Andrew William Smith says he’s not sure…
Pittsburgh City Paper - There are so many layers and word plays in this fish tale. Quantum Theatre’s production of Jez Butterworth’s The River is funny, romantic, poetic — and almost entirely…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - All the human necessities are gathered under one roof in “The River,” an hourlong mystery about love, life and trout. An outdoorsman has taken his new girlfriend…
Tribune-Review - Quantum Theatre's next play is a mystery and a drama with a tinge of magical realism, says its director Adil Mansoor. “The world you are staring at is…
Pittsburgh City Paper - The River is about a man, two women and fishing. Or is it? Part of the lure of this 2014 work by acclaimed British playwright Jez Butterworth…
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