The Pittsburgh Tatler: I’m not really sure how to write about Will Arbery’s mystifying yet utterly engaging (and strangely funny) play Plano. It’s the kind of play – and, under Adil Mansoor’s smart and surehanded direction, the kind of production – that rapidly sweeps you into an off-kilter, reality-adjacent world, one in which time operates by a different set of rules, characters divide and separate, and family curses manifest in the form of slug invasions and faceless ghosts.
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I’m very interested in this production. First of all, Quantum theater puts on incredible theater, and they have been for a while. I remember seeing play there and turning to my friend who sat beside me and saying “we can never miss a production here ever.” And now look at me, I’m swamped in work hunkering down trying to finish my classes with passing grades and I didn’t even know this play was happening. I would love to go see it, especially because I would love to see how they execute the “faceless ghost” haunting the family. From the photos they included, the production seems very rooted in reality and I would be fascinated to see how they break that paradigm with the inclusion of the ghost. Or perhaps they don’t break the reality of the play and the ghost is just another recognizably human character like in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
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